World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 at the same time as he wrote the first browser program that allowed user to access web pages throughout the world. He developed the HTTP 0.9 protocol, their browsers soon followed, including Erwise, ViolaWWW, MidasWWW and Cello.
When Tim Berners-Lee developed the first web browser, the computer he used was a NeXT computer designed by Steve Jobs.
In 1993, Marc Andreessen, a student at the University of Illinois, led a team of students that wrote Mosaic, the first graphical Web browser, as part of a project for the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Although Mosaic was not as sophisticated as its competitors, a lot of effort had gone into making it easy to install.
By end of 1993, the Mosaic browser was available for UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh computers and there were about 200 Web servers in the world. NCSA stopped development of the Mosaic browser in 1996.
These were replaced in later years by Netscape which dominated the browser market until Microsoft developed Internet Explorer. Today, the most popular web browsers to the internet are Mozilla Firefox, Safari by Apple, and Google Chrome.
History of Web browser