Apathy Curve: Before Netscape

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Before Netscape

Most of us who were on the internet (which is what DARPANet had gradually morphed into during the period of 1988-93) in the early days were still using Unix command line interfaces to employ UseNet readers, Gopher, etc., for our net-browsing needs. You probably remember Mosaic, the first commercial web browser which was launched in "polished" form by Netscape in October of 1994. It broke the internet wide open and fueled development of what we know today as the Web.

What you may not be aware of is the series of browser projects, many of them developed internally within CERN and other research agencies, which made possible that giant leap in the history of mankind. Go ye forth and learn.

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