1994: Netscape Navigator
1994: Netscape Navigator
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Mosaic’s first big competitor, Netscape Navigator, was released the year following (1994).
1993: Mosaic – first graphical web browser for the general public
1993: Mosaic – first graphical web browser for the general public
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The first widely downloaded Internet browser, Mosaic, was released in 1993. While Mosaic wasn’t the first web browser, it is considered the first browser to make the Internet easily accessible to non-techies.
The Internet In 1996
The Internet In 1996
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In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They’ve now archived 55 billion web pages. That’s enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate’s printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.

I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine’s earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996, when I was 14 and evidently had much less free time than I do now. Much to my chagrin, few websites from these early years have been successfully archived, and many of the best preserved ones were created by fast food and soft drink corporations because they were some of the earliest adapters of the internet. They viewed the medium as a chance for inexpensive advertising and invested dozens upon dozens of dollars into it. The results are tremendously humiliating.

Netscape Composer
Netscape Composer
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When I first started browsing the web, my browser of choice was Netscape. Back in the 90s, Netscape Navigator actually had less credibility than IE, and the browser was often referred to as netcake by 1990s website elitists.  However, one vital feature that was bundled in with the browser, which started me off designing very badly coded but visually decent pages, was Netscape Composer. Composer.....
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