Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser That Turns 20 Today...

Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser That Turns 20 Today [PHOTO]

“Mosaic, based on the work of Berners-Lee and the hypertext theorists before him, is generally recognized as the beginning of the web as it is now known. Mosaic, the first web browser to win over the Net masses, was released in 1993 and made freely accessible to the public. The adjective phenomenal, so often overused in this industry, is genuinely applicable to the… ‘explosion’ in the growth of the web after Mosaic appeared on the scene. Starting with next to nothing, the rates of the web growth (quoted in the press) hovering around tens of thousands of percent over ridiculously short periods of time were no real surprise.”
 — Mosaic, the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web, was released on this day in 1993. How did web browsers change the way we interact with information and each other? Tell us in the comments!

Photo by Ragib Hasan