What was the name of the FIRST Internet Browser called?

[WayneTeK]

curious. What was the name of the first internet WEB BROWSER called? Wasn't it just called World wide web?

 

[Jinny]

Mosaic, which later on became netscape. i tink.

 

[her209]

Linx?

Gopher?

 

[Aceshigh]

I think Jinny is right. I found this when I did a web search:

The first widely used web browser was NCSA Mosaic. The Mosaic programming team then developed the first commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator, later renamed Communicator, then renamed back to just Netscape. The Netscape browser led in user share until Microsoft Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999 due to its advantage in being bundled with Windows operating systems. An open source version of Netscape was then developed called Mozilla, which was the internal name for the old Netscape browser, and released in 2002. Mozilla has since gained in market share, particularly on non-Windows platforms, due to its open source foundation.

 

[Looney]

Depends what you consider a browser.... the first to display graphics, was Mosaic i'm pretty sure. There were others before it, but they were purely text.

 

[rh71]

I remember lynx. Was back in '95 during my freshman year in college that I discovered it. I missed out on the whole Mosaic thing, but yes, that should be the first web browser...

 

[Tetsuo]

mosaic sure rings a bell, but im a yung'n, so yea

 

[N8Magic]

Mosaic.

 

[MacGaven]

I remember Mosaic!

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Mosaic I think. Lynx/Linx was cool though - used it at the library a couple times

 

1990 called "WorldWideWeb"

http://news.com.com/2009-1032-995680.html#

 

[kuk]

AOL

 

[badluck]

My boss created Lynx with the help of a few other guys at KU....

 

[Ameesh]

there were some text browesers like lynx out there for a long time, even before mosaic

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
there were some text browesers like lynx out there for a long time, even before mosaic

You're right, although most people wouldn't equate Lynx with "the internet as they know it".

 

[Tallgeese]

Mosiac...which kicked much ass!

The first time I used Mosaic to surf the Web, it was like opening the door of the gray, dusty farmhouse and stepping out into the gorgeous Technicolor beauty of Munchkinland!

 

[manly]

Whatever was created at CERN in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee (and others). I don't recall the name.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: Tallgeese
Mosiac...which kicked much ass!

The first time I used Mosaic to surf the Web, it was like opening the door of the gray, dusty farmhouse and stepping out into the gorgeous Technicolor beauty of Munchkinland!

So you were looking at porn right?

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf

Originally posted by: Tallgeese
Mosiac...which kicked much ass!

The first time I used Mosaic to surf the Web, it was like opening the door of the gray, dusty farmhouse and stepping out into the gorgeous Technicolor beauty of Munchkinland!

So you were looking at porn right?

I wonder who was the first to have a nudie pic of them put on the internet...

 

[ElFenix]

ncsa mosaic rules the school!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf

Originally posted by: Tallgeese
Mosiac...which kicked much ass!

The first time I used Mosaic to surf the Web, it was like opening the door of the gray, dusty farmhouse and stepping out into the gorgeous Technicolor beauty of Munchkinland!

So you were looking at porn right?

I wonder who was the first to have a nudie pic of them put on the internet...

actually it shouldn't be all that hard to find... iirc it was a playmate

 

[ElFenix]

not quite, though close

*could be questionable, mods please delete link if so*

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: WayneTeK
curious. What was the name of the first internet WEB BROWSER called? Wasn't it just called World wide web?

Yes.

It was renamed a little while later to Nexus. This was back in 1990.

here is a picture of the browser:

http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/CACM/screensnap2_24c.gif

here is another but older. Note it is only in grey scale.

linky

 

[RossMAN]

NCSA's Mosaic

I remember using version 1 and going "Wow this is cool, it's like a worldwide BBS with no long distance".

 

[KC5AV]

I think his name was Bob Kowalski.