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  2. Web browser - Wikipedia

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    The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. [12] [13] He then recruited Nicola Pellow to write the Line Mode Browser, which displayed web pages on dumb terminals. [14] The Mosaic web browser was released in April 1993, and was later credited as the first web browser to find mainstream popularity.

  3. Browser-based computing - Wikipedia

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    Browser-based computing is the use of the web browsers to perform computing tasks. Opportunities for computing on the Web have been noted as far back as 1997. [ 1 ] Computing over the web was described in 2000. [ 2 ]

  4. Browser - Wikipedia

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    Web browser, a program used to access the World Wide Web; Code browser, a program for navigating source code; File browser or file manager, a program used to manage files and related objects; Hardware browser, a program for displaying networked hardware devices; Image browser or image viewer, a program that can display stored graphical images

  5. History of the web browser - Wikipedia

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    Another early browser, Silversmith, was created by John Bottoms in 1986. [23] [24] The browser, based on SGML tags, [25] used a tag set from the Electronic Document Project of the AAP with minor modifications and was sold to a number of early adopters. [26] [27] [28] At the time SGML was used exclusively for the formatting of printed documents.

  6. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  7. Web page - Wikipedia

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    The URL is visible in the browser's address bar at the top. A web page (or webpage) is a document on the Web that is accessed in a web browser. [1] A website typically consists of many web pages linked together under a common domain name. The term "web page" is therefore a metaphor of paper pages bound together into a book.

  8. Comparison of web browsers - Wikipedia

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    Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.. This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones ...

  9. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software user agent for accessing information on the World Wide Web. To connect to a website's server and display its pages, a user needs to have a web browser program. This is the program that the user runs to download, format, and display a web page on the user's computer.