Web browser | List of Web Browsers

Web browser | List of Web Browsers

1. A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content.
   
2. The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. His browser was called WorldWideWeb and later renamed Nexus.
   
3. The first commonly available web browser with a graphical user interface was Erwise. The development of Erwise was initiated by Robert Cailliau.
   
4. In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. Andreesen's browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s.

Some Notable releases of Browsers

1. WorldWideWeb, February 25, 1990
2. Mosaic, April 22, 1993
3. Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
4. Internet Explorer, August 16, 1995
5. Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera web browser
6. Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002
7. Safari, January 7, 2003
8. Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
9. Google Chrome, September 2, 2008
10. Microsoft Edge, July 9, 2015
11. Vivaldi, November 4, 2015