Internet Browsers
We all know about internet browsers and what they are used for, but we don’t all know the difference between certain browsers such as Firefox and chrome. Some browsers work better for looking up things for research papers, and then some work better if you need to find something that you aren’t sure about.
The First web browser was created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus. Three years later Marc Andreesen created a browser that was easy to use and install with the release of Mosaic. This browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990’s. These are two major milestones in the history of the web.
Today there are many different browsers you can choose from, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Although Internet Explorer is more commonly used in the United States, most countries primarily use Chrome now.
Sometimes it is hard to pick which browser to use because they are so similar, which is why everyone uses something a little bit different. Although internet explorer is very popular, many people are beginning to use Chrome instead. Since its release in late 2008, Chrome has quickly become one of the most used browsers in the world.
The primary purpose of a web browser is to bring information resources to the user, allowing them to view and access the information. This process begins when the user inputs a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. The most commonly used kind of URI starts with http: and identifies a resource to be retrieved over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Many browsers also support a variety of other prefixes such as https, ftp, and file.
When choosing a browser, one thing to be concerned about is popups and viruses. Some browsers have better virus protection than others, which could be very important. Browsers such as Internet Explorer and Chrome have better popup and virus protection than Firefox and Safari. If your decide to use one without all the popup blockers, be very careful about what web pages you open up, because they could very easily contain malicious software that can harm your computer.
Web Browsing was very slow to become popular with the general public, as it took until 1995 and 1996 before the number of users began to skyrocket. The number of users for web browsers is now well into the billions, and it will only continue to grow in uses.
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Technologies advance so quickly that it seems no sooner has one technology become widely accepted than it is replaced by something newer and superior. Technologies in the field of web design are no exception. As web-related hardware and software components became faster, more reliable, and easier to use, the web exploded with new websites which led to a dramatic increase in web usage around the world.
From 1992 to 1995, the concept of the Internet, the technology moved from primarily government and research usage to that of the general public. Terms such as “log on” and surf were born, along with perhaps every conceivable usage of the Internet, from commercial purposes to pornography. With the introduction of Mosaic, the first truly successfully graphic user interface for the Internet, popularity took off, even being proposed as a candidate for Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”. Starting between 1994 and 1995 though, the perils of internet usage began to emerge, at first in the form of disrupting online business operations. The Internet, quickly dubbed as a new social system in which the newcomers, unaware of the existing rules, redefined what the Internet was all about.
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In 1994, Marc Anderseen invented a new way to search and retrieve information from the Internet: the Netscape Navigator. Netscape’s rising sales and the phenomenal growth of the Internet make its shares go through the roof and even before the Company had any profit; it was valued at $2.7 billion. However, the scenario didn’t go that well for so long and a very powerful and ambitious man came into the picture. Bill Gates put 2,000 of his best programmers to create a browser of his own: The Explorer. The battle of the browsers officially started; Microsoft’s share of the browser market increased from 2.9 percent at the end of 1995 to more than 40 percent by the end of 1997, while Netscape’s market share fell to 54 percent.
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