Comments on: The History of Web Browsers

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:52:21 +0000

What about Lynx? I used that all the time in the early 90’s. I had no graphic capability until 1998 or so, and Lynx was an ideal text-based browser for my situation.

By: alexlex

alexlex — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:20:53 +0000

Nice work, my browser is FireFox.. great work, thanks!

By: zoomzoom

zoomzoom — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:54:36 +0000

Jeff.K: seems like you are some immature kid. seen your “website” and you dont have any right to criticize this awesome article.

By: P Smith

P Smith — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:35:25 +0000

Calling this a “history” is like calling a couple of index cards an encyclopedia. There are so many more facets of browser history such as Mosaic being open source and borrowed/stolen for Netscape and Microshaft’s Spyglass (later Infernal Exploder), the plethora of niche browsers (many based on Active-X) in the late 1990s, and the failed history of WAP.

By: Web 2.0

Web 2.0 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:14:11 +0000

Well I didn’t know that Mozilla was formed in 1998… my browser is FireFox.. great work, thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:46:56 +0000

@HO Firefox tabs where there well before Chrome was a gleam in Google’s eye.

By: glyconutrients

glyconutrients — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:22:59 +0000

Missing two VERY important ones.

Lynx, which was already mentioned by another reader, and AOL, which was HUGE in mid-late 90’s.

I also think it is important to indicate release of IE and NN 4.0 as this there were MAJOR changes in stylesheets, DHTML, etc.

By: Yang

Yang — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:26:20 +0000

Google chrome I just like it!

By: Linux And Friends

Linux And Friends — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:39:31 +0000

Wow that is one huge image. Nevertheless tastefully done.

You have not covered some of the more prominent albeit lesser known web browsers such as Konqueror, Galeon, Dillo, Text only browsers like Links and so on.

Nice compilation though.

By: HO

HO — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:09:36 +0000

not much elaborated, a quick rushed out review perhaps. I should have been share the article.
btw, IE7 tab feature adopted from FF?? Google Chrome is lightweight?