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3 days ago · At the time of its IPO, Netscape’s web browser was a commercial product. This is a photograph of an actual retail box containing the Netscape browser. It sold for about $35. Initially priced at $28 per share on the day of its IPO, it soared as high as $74.75 per share. In the span of 8 hours, it went from a startup to a valuation of $3 billion.
1 day ago · By 2002, Internet Explorer had almost completely superseded its main rival Netscape and dominated the market with up to 95 percent market share. After having fought and won the browser wars of the late 1990s, Internet Explorer gained almost total dominance of the browser market.
3 days ago · This is a timeline of web browsers from 1990 to the present. Prior to browsers, many technologies and systems existed for information viewing and transmission. For an in-depth history of earlier web browsers, see the web browser article.
4 days ago · It was the first browser to display images inline with text, making the internet more visually appealing and user-friendly. Mosaic’s success was immediate, and it quickly gained a large user base. Its intuitive interface and support for multimedia content set it apart from other early browsers.
1 day ago · Mosaic was the first widely used web browser. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) licensed the technology and many companies built their own web browser on Mosaic. The best known are the first versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape.
1 day ago · How did the Internet start? › The internet began as ARPANET, an academic research network that was funded by the military's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA). The project was led by Bob Taylor, an ARPA administrator, and the network was built by the consulting firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. It began operations in 1969.
4 days ago · Credit: Popular Science / “The Project”. On August 6, 1991, in a little-known newsgroup–an early-days, primitive version of an internet forum–called alt.hypertext, a soon-to-be-famous ...
