Master File

The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus The first commonly available web browser with a graphical user interface was Erwise. The development of Erwise was initiated by Robert Cailliau.Microsoft responded with its Internet Explorer in 1995, also heavily influenced by Mosaic, initiating the industrys first browser war. Bundled with Windows, Internet Explorer gained dominance in the web browser market; Internet Explorer usage share peaked at over 95% by 2002.In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the worlds first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. Andreesens browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s. The introduction of Mosaic in 1993 Ð one of the first graphical web browsers Ð led to an explosion in web use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influencedNetscape Navigator in 1994.