Web browsers: a brief history

[longknife]

As Windows Edge is revealed, take a look back over some of the key moments in the history of web browsing

This is the one I remember:

An interesting story on something we so easily take for granted now @ Web browsers a brief history - Telegraph

 

[TheOldSchool]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

 

[longknife]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

All I really remember is having a dial-up modem and calling local EBBS' to read posts and respond. Can't remember what I program I used. It was on an Apple II Clone.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

This is what I remember the most...

 

[Bleipriester]

I don´t understand why so many people switched from Firefox to Chrome. While it is a good browser in general, you have a Google employee sitting at your side noting where you are surfing

In Germany, the majority uses Firefox.
Browser-Statistik.de - Browser-Marktanteile in Deutschland

 

[Moonglow]

Those were the better designs, I can remember when DOS made you do it in the dark.....same with film development in dat dark room...

 

[Moonglow]

The first internet I used was dial-up at one dollar and hour...

 

[iamwhatiseem]

True story...I was a sys admin from 98 - 2002.
We provided the first dial up service in this area...I kid you not...we literally setup over 200 individual modems in one room. And that was the service.
I wish I would have taken a photo...

 

[Mr. H.]

I remember taking my kids to the Engineering Open House at UIUC back in the '80s.

There was a small TV screen displaying graphics and text, much like the pages in a magazine. The student demonstrating the project called it "Netscape" and explained what the "Internet" is going to be some day very soon.

I was gobsmacked.

 

[Politico]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

All I really remember is having a dial-up modem and calling local EBBS' to read posts and respond. Can't remember what I program I used. It was on an Apple II Clone.

I remember having to plug a phone into a cradle in 1985.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

All I really remember is having a dial-up modem and calling local EBBS' to read posts and respond. Can't remember what I program I used. It was on an Apple II Clone.

I remember having to plug a phone into a cradle in 1985.

My first computer was a Commodore 128. I loved that thing.
I bought one of these, but my parents wouldn't let me use it.

 

[hipeter924]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

Same here.

I was kinda sad when it was superseded by Internet Explorer and the like.

 

[Politico]

Lucky for you Netscape is still around.

 

[Quentin111]

The first Internet I used at work, my first browser was Netscape Navigator.

 

[boedicca]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

Me too - the Netscape Navigator in '94 on a Mac.

 

[Moonglow]

The first Internet I used at work, my first browser was Netscape Navigator.

I hated that browser and internet explorer.....I also hated dail up internet connection...

 

[pauls]

When I first got on the internet it was connecting to the UW Vax computer and it cost $1 per cpu second. Back then there were no pictures or graphics, it was all text. There was still a lot of information available but it was from university and scientific research. No Wikipedia or private websites.

 

[longknife]

When I first got on the internet it was connecting to the UW Vax computer and it cost $1 per cpu second. Back then there were no pictures or graphics, it was all text. There was still a lot of information available but it was from university and scientific research. No Wikipedia or private websites.

I know a lot of people will disagree with me but I think Wikipedia and all its little subsections are the best thing that ever happened to the internet. How many know about Wikimedia and Wiktionary?

 

[Kosh]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape.

All I really remember is having a dial-up modem and calling local EBBS' to read posts and respond. Can't remember what I program I used. It was on an Apple II Clone.

I remember having to plug a phone into a cradle in 1985.

My first computer was a Commodore 128. I loved that thing.
I bought one of these, but my parents wouldn't let me use it.

Now that takes me back to the good ol Commodore 64 days..

I remember buying C64 that did more than my old IBM did.

 

[Kosh]

I remember the browser wars in Congress..