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Early web users were free to choose among the handful of web browsers available, just as they would choose any other application—web standards would ensure their experience remained largely the same. The browser wars put the Web in the hands of millions of ordinary PC users, but showed how commercialization of the Web could stymie standards ...
A timeline of web browsers The most used web browser by country in 2020, with Google Chrome as the most widely used [1]. A browser war is a competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers.
Historians generally agree that the 1993 introduction of the Mosaic web browser was a turning point for the World Wide Web. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Before the release of Mosaic in 1993, graphics were not commonly mixed with text in web pages, and the Web was less popular than older protocols such as Gopher and WAIS.
This is a timeline of web browsers from 1990 to the present. Prior to browsers, many technologies and systems existed for information viewing and transmission. For an in-depth history of earlier web browsers, see the web browser article.
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A web browser displaying a web page. A web browser is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on a range of devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
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