__1998: __A report from the International Data Corporation shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has passed Netscape Navigator in browser share for the first time. The numbers: Microsoft Internet ...

Other browsers soon followed -- www, Erwise, Midas, ViolaWWW, Cello, and more. But the browser that really kick-started the Web was Mosaic, released in 1993. Written by Mark Andreessen and Eric Bina ...

Late on the night of Sept. 30, 1997, a group of Microsoft employees strategically placed a large metal likeness of the Internet Explorer logo on the front lawn at Netscape Communications in Mountain ...

Remember the bad old days of the Internet, when it wasn’t a given that one primary objective of any Web site should be to work equally well in any modern browser? Some sites slapped “Best Viewed With ...

Back in the early days, the internet was a very different creature from what it is today. To most, it would be unrecognizable, consisting primarily of bulletin board systems with no multimedia, aside ...

The internet is full of the ghosts of old services that, while once triumphant beacons of the world wide web, have fallen into mere shells of their former selves or have simply died entirely. The ...

Twenty-five years ago today, a group of tech pioneers founded the company that would eventually create Netscape Navigator. The browser lived a short life, but its legacy looms large. At the dawn of ...