NCSA Mosaic brought the WWW to the general public’s attention, thanks to its ease of use, its presence on Windows and Macintosh platforms (Unix XWindows version shown here), and its ability to display images inline with text.

IBM WebExplorer (1994)

IBM broke into the Web browser field relatively early with the Mosaic-based WebExplorer, designed for the company’s OS/2 Warp 3 operating system. Critics hailed IBM’s browser.

Netscape Navigator 1.0 (1994)

After finding success with Mosaic, that browser’s creators left NCSA to form Netscape Communications, which developed Netscape Navigator 1.0.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 (1995)

Seeing Netscape’s success, Microsoft decided to jump into the browser business.

Netscape Navigator 3.0 (1996)

Here’s Netscape at the height of its popularity and influence–the period just before Internet Explorer stole the wind from its sails.

Opera 2.0 (1996)

Norwegian company Opera Software released the first public version of Opera browser, version 2.0, for Windows in 1996.

KDE Konqueror (2000)