COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WEB BROWSER

Abstract

Initially, the most popular application on the Internet was electronic mail (e-mail). In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of the Counseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire, (CERN), the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, introduced the hypertext language, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), in a paper entitled “Information Management: A proposal.” In 1990, the name World Wide Web was introduced. The first web program was built on Next computers. In February 1993, the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois introduced Mosaic, a graphical, user-friendly for X-Windows that enables users to click on an icon to get the linked document. It was not until November 1993, however, that Mosaic became popular, when it was ported to Intel and Macintosh platforms. Free software, especially, browsers, probably did as much to popularize the Net as anything else. In 1994, Marc Andreessen, one of the original developers of Mosaic, left the university to become a co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation, one of the leading companies in Internet Technology.