Historical Browsers

Historical Browsers are those highly significant and popular browsers which have come to occupy an important place on account of their brilliant performance. Historical Browsers can be defined as the Historically Important Browsers. The importance of these browsers cannot be underestimated.

Some of the most important Historical Browsers are:

World Wide Web

World Wide Web was the very first web browser to be developed by Tim Berners-Lee. It was formally introduced on 26th of February, 1991. This was the very first software program, which made use of both File Transfer Protocol and Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Microsoft Internet Explorer :

This is another important type of Historical Browsers, which is popularly known as IE. It was developed by Microsoft and the very first version of it was released in 1995. This has been one of the most popularly used web browsers right from 1999. Internet Explorer is a graphic-based web browser. It is meant for a number of important platforms such as UNIX and Mac.

Mosaic

This is yet another very important web browser. It is believed to be highly reliable and could also be installed with much ease. These two specific features accounted for its continued worldwide popularity. Mosaic was developed in 1992 by National Centre for Supercomputing Technology. This was the first browser, which allowed graphical aspects to be embedded with the textual contents of a web page.