which has been around longer?....
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Commercially start for the year range of 1996 which was: The WWW browser wars, fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, rushed in a new age in software development, whereby new releases were made quarterly with the help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.
Here a better link for a more factual timeline of the real first browser(s): First www browsers
What were the first WWW browsers?
WorldWideWeb
I wrote in 1990 the first GUI browser, and called it "WorldWideWeb". It ran on the NeXT computer. (I much later renamed the application Nexus to avoid confusion between the first client and the abstract space itself).
Screenshot of WorldWideWeb taken for a CACM article. By this time it had color and inline images.The original 1990 version 1.0 would have looked identical except the book icon and the CERN icon would have been in separate windows - and the whole thing (like NeXT at the time) would have been in gray scale! The screen shot shows me making a link from "Atlas" in a list of experiments to some marked page. Look - no typing URLS, no <angle brackets>!
worldwide was a graphical point-and-click browser with mode-free editing and link creation. It used style sheets, and multiple fonts, sizes, and justification styles. It would download and display linked images, diagrams, sounds animations and movies from anything in the large NeXTStep standard repertoire.
(Some have asked for pointers to the source code. I have found an archive directory including the HyperText.m module which was the basis for the hypertext functionality. This code, like all my WWW code and later W3C has always been publicly available. This archive has the code, though the libwww code modules are soft links which no longer work. I haven't tried recompiling and linking it for years - so it is probably of historical interest only)
Viola
Pei Wei, student at Stanford, then wrote "ViolaWWW" for unix; some students at Helsinki University of Technology wrote "Erwise" for unix; and Tony Johnson of SLAC wrote "Midas" for unix. Pei Wei has passed though history unnoticed among others whose work is not mentioned in the histories, even though there was a year or so when Viola was the best way to browse the web, was the engine driving the installation of new servers, and the recommended browser at CERN for example.
Many people, incidentally, saw the Web for the first time by telnetting into info.CERN.ch, which gave them a crude but functional line mode interface. This was the second browser, a text-based browser, called the "line mode" browser, or "www", and written by CERN student Nicola Pellow. Many people imagined that that was all there was to the web. As one journalist wrote "The Web is a way of finding information by typing numbers" as links were numbered on the page. It was only in the community of people who use NeXT computers that the Web could be seen as a point-and-click space of hypertext.
Russ, as a child of it does!
Here a better link for a more factual timeline of the real first browser(s): First www browsers
What were the first WWW browsers?
WorldWideWeb
I wrote in 1990 the first GUI browser, and called it "WorldWideWeb". It ran on the NeXT computer. (I much later renamed the application Nexus to avoid confusion between the first client and the abstract space itself).
Screenshot of WorldWideWeb taken for a CACM article. By this time it had color and inline images.The original 1990 version 1.0 would have looked identical except the book icon and the CERN icon would have been in separate windows - and the whole thing (like NeXT at the time) would have been in gray scale! The screen shot shows me making a link from "Atlas" in a list of experiments to some marked page. Look - no typing URLS, no <angle brackets>!
worldwide was a graphical point-and-click browser with mode-free editing and link creation. It used style sheets, and multiple fonts, sizes, and justification styles. It would download and display linked images, diagrams, sounds animations and movies from anything in the large NeXTStep standard repertoire.
(Some have asked for pointers to the source code. I have found an archive directory including the HyperText.m module which was the basis for the hypertext functionality. This code, like all my WWW code and later W3C has always been publicly available. This archive has the code, though the libwww code modules are soft links which no longer work. I haven't tried recompiling and linking it for years - so it is probably of historical interest only)
Viola
Pei Wei, student at Stanford, then wrote "ViolaWWW" for unix; some students at Helsinki University of Technology wrote "Erwise" for unix; and Tony Johnson of SLAC wrote "Midas" for unix. Pei Wei has passed though history unnoticed among others whose work is not mentioned in the histories, even though there was a year or so when Viola was the best way to browse the web, was the engine driving the installation of new servers, and the recommended browser at CERN for example.
Many people, incidentally, saw the Web for the first time by telnetting into info.CERN.ch, which gave them a crude but functional line mode interface. This was the second browser, a text-based browser, called the "line mode" browser, or "www", and written by CERN student Nicola Pellow. Many people imagined that that was all there was to the web. As one journalist wrote "The Web is a way of finding information by typing numbers" as links were numbered on the page. It was only in the community of people who use NeXT computers that the Web could be seen as a point-and-click space of hypertext.
Russ, as a child of it does!
Windows 1.0 was around before Linux. Linux started circa 1990 and I was using Windows 3.0 in 1991 (my friend had the source to Windows 1.3).
Netscape is definitely older than Internet Explorer. However, Netscape did come from Mosaic.
vash
Netscape is definitely older than Internet Explorer. However, Netscape did come from Mosaic.
vash
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