The Web Browser

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What would a computer be like if the web browser was never created? What would the internet be like? What would the internet be used for without a way to browse it? The first web browser was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1991. It was called the WorldWideWeb. The second browser was developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina in 1993. This browser was called the NCSA Mosaic and featured integrated graphics, something browsers didn’t have at the time that had an effect on all the browsers that came after it.

If there wasn’t a web browser then the internet would be incredibly different. I use the internet every day. Many people are sadly addicted to the internet. People who are addicted to the internet sometimes kill and steal to get money to pay for internet or subscriptions to play games. I can recall many stories of how people died from not eating or drinking or sleeping to play a game nonstop for a marathon or to beat it in the fastest time. How people can be that addicted to the internet or games is beyond me.

The most popular web browser was then Internet Explorer, but its popularity is falling and the two most used browsers other than IE are now Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. There are others out there that are good browsers, like Opera, they just aren’t well known. I dislike IE and always use Chrome nowadays. My dad still supports Internet Explorer though.

Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, but was raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, a small town of about 1500 people at the time. His father was a seed salesman and is now retired. Marc’s mother still works for the catalogue clothier Lands End. His main interest was computers began in the 5th grade when he read a book on basic programming l...

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