Most of the time when we start our computer, we click to launch Internet Explorer or FireFox to surf and visit our favourite web sites and to check emails or to write a blog post, but rarely we wonder what really has started this…
Everything has a begging, so does the browsing and the most important tool, the Web Browser…
What started it ?? What was the 1st web browser ??
The worlds firts web browser was NetScape Navigator…
Late in 1994, a company called Mosaic Communication Corporation developed and launched the world’s first web browser, the Mosaic NetScape 0.9, which in terms was known to all as the Worlds First Web Browser, the NetScapce Navigator…
To many of us, Internet Explorer means the getaway to the Internet, however it is the success of NetScape which has forced Microsoft to develop and ship the very first version of its own browser, the Internet Explorer 1.0 with as a part of Windows 95 Plus Pack…
Hey wait a minute, now days I don’t see NetScape Navigator…
Most people do posses this idea, which in fact is quite right…
Since when Microsoft started bundling Internet Explorer with its all version of Windows, NetScape found itself losing ground over Internet Explorer on the first Browser war…
Some believed, that, because of Microsoft’s monopoly on the OS market and pushing Internet Explorer as with their OS led to the downfall, where as many Microsoft fan would point that because of Internet Explorer’s capability, no one ever felt the need to look for an alternate option…
AOL bought the project on 1999 and went on to convert it to Mozilla as an open source software…
Eventually Mozilla’s success led to the birth of FireFox which is now holds a great market share and threatens microsoft’s browser market share….
December 28th 2007, AOL announced the End of Support and Development for NetScape Navigator… The latest version of which (Netscape 9.0) was nothing more than a skinned down version of FireFox 2.0 with some extensions !!!
The worlds first Web browser was (WorldWideWeb Equals to W3) and was running on a NeXt computer system. -Stay with facts!
/shad-99
It is a sad new to hear about the fate of the world’s first web browser. I used it from the year 1998 to 2000 after switching to IE and finally to Firefox. These days, I once used Netscape just for my inquisitiveness. And the latest version 9 was much like a copy of firefox 2 in the UI section. It has most things copied from Firefox. I think with the ever growing popularity of Firefox, Netscape will soon be a thing of past.
Thanks for the info in your blog.