Browser

__Broswer__


 * Definition**

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) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content

Dozens of innovative web //[|browsers]// have been created by various people and teams over the years. The first widely used web browser was [|//NCSA Mosaic//]. The Mosaic programming team then created the first commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator, later renamed Communicator, then renamed back to just Netscape. The Netscape browser led in user share until Microsoft Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999 due to its distribution advantage. A free open source software version of Netscape was then developed called Mozilla, which was the internal name for the old Netscape browser, and released in 2002. Mozilla has since gained in market share, particularly on non-Windows platforms, largely due to its open source foundation, and in 2004 was released in the quickly popular FireFox version. A chronological listing of some of the influential early web browsers that advanced the state of the art is provided below:
 * __History__**
 * __WorldWideWeb__.//[| Tim Berners-Lee]// wrote the first web browser on a NeXT computer, called WorldWideWeb, finishing the first version on Christmas day, 1990. He released the program to a number of people at CERN in March, 1991, introducing the web to the high energy physics community, and beginning its spread.
 * __libwww__. Berners-Lee and a student at CERN named Jean-Francois Groff ported the WorldWideWeb application from the NeXT environment to the more common C language in 1991 and 1992, calling the new browser libwww. Groff later started the first web design company, InfoDesign.ch.
 * __Line-mode__. Nicola Pellow, a math student interning at CERN, wrote a line-mode web browser that would work on any device, even a teletype. In 1991, Nicola and the team ported the browser to a range of computers, from [|//Unix//] to Microsoft DOS, so that anyone could access the web, at that point consisting primarily of the CERN phone book.


 * __Comparison of Past and Present Day devices__**

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 * __Purpose__To display the information on the website in a neat and [|organized] way. And also to help you navigate around the web easily.**


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 * __References wikispaces.com/Browser__**