The History of Web Browsers (Picture)

By | March 29, 2011


From the dark ages to this day.

The History of Web Browsers (Picture)

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  1. Armin says:

    This diagram helps me visualize how old Opera really is. It’s even older than Internet Explorer! It has seen little growth in terms of market share, however, despite being the oldest amongst the top browsers. The evolution of the icons is pretty cool by the way.

    • AbortionNo.org says:

      BOLLOCKS!
      for example Opera had gestures already in:
      Apr. 10, 2001: 5.10 final
      http://www.opera.com/docs/history/#facts
      GET THE FACTS!!!

      • Grrblt says:

        What exactly do you think is bollocks?

      • Armin says:

        I understand now. You responded to my post even though it has nothing to do with your complaint, this having likely been done by accident. I was confused at first.

        • AbortionNO.org says:

          it does! you’ve attacked Opera browser…

        • ChromeFirefoxOpera says:

          Hey was referring to the image diagram. At the very end of the diagram below the 11 under opera logo it states “Mouse Gestures”, meaning the visual mouse gestures in opera 11 release. He has posted link to opera release sheet which does state Mouse gestures (not the visual sort) were in Opera 5 release. Different types of mouse gestures, but Im thinking he just wanted to give out – angry folks these opera heads, evidently.

          • sar3th says:

            sorry but visual mouse gestures are the same as the normal mouse gestures, except that they added a visual indicator, hence the name ;)
            i’m not angry or anything but please if you talk about something, make sure you know what you are talking about ;)

          • ChromeFirefoxOpera says:

            You obviously havent used the new visual ones that opera had in their release notes for 11. You have to stare at a bookmark or browser menu option and concentrate really hard on visualising the screen/page you want to see for 2 seconds and then move your eyes to the right in a swiping motion.

          • DKATyler says:

            Yeah I came ’round

          • DKATyler says:

            (Fail post above)
            Yeah I came ’round because my favorite browser (Opera) has had tabs, mouse gestures since Y2K. My old Opera 7 I turned off popups without the fancy popup blockers other people started to use and with spybot turned off the ads inside Opera as well.

            It’s showing it’s age now, my attempts at installing opera 9 & 10 were a bust :(.

    • Henen says:

      one is thing, opera never change

  2. web says:

    not too good, its better the one on wikipedia

  3. Where’s Spyglass and Mosaic? What about lynx?

    Maybe they should have titled it “Web Browsers that 18 year olds can remember” instead.

  4. Jay says:

    How accurate is this?
    Is there a source for number of users/browser?
    I was under the impression that Firefox had a majority of the market with Chrome coming in second and IE near last.

  5. The last two years show significant Chrome take up but no drop in either IE or Firefox.
    Is that correct?

    • Sarjoor says:

      Yeah. I think IE and Firefox should be showing a more significant decrease for 2009-2010 due to Chrome.

  6. Safari come from KHTML root.

    • COlden says:

      Chrome and Safari both build on WebKit.

      • narthollis says:

        Yes, and WebKit is based on KHTML.

        Safari even tried using it AS KHTML for a while before they all decided it was too hard and just forked the project instead – leaving us with KHTML and WebKit

  7. Browsers from the dark ages to this day :)

  8. Gavin Lock says:

    That’s an extremely neat visualisation. I’d like to see it broken down so that each new version got a branch as it grew (though this would quickly clutter the screen). It’d just show adoption of new versions and also how much of the IE9 share is legacy IE6 machines.

  9. Henen says:

    one is thing, opera never change

  10. Pseudonym says:

    one is thing, opera never change

  11. SDSF says:

    WYKOP KURWA !!!!

  12. I don’t care about marketshare, that’s a measure of human-sheeplike behavior. I choose my browser on quality, performance, stability, security and features.

    That’s why I don’t follow the crowd sheep-like into whatever browser has the biggest marketing budget, I use Opera 11.

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  14. s427 says:

    Nice picture, but the JPG compression really ruins it. Don’t you want to post it in PNG instead? (Might be heavier, but maybe not that much since much of the picture is flat colors.)

  15. Louis Duquet says:

    i wish Netscape would still be alive. i loved it so much back then.

  16. Louis Duquet says:

    i wish Netscape would still be alive. i loved it so much back then.

  17. the Goat says:

    Where is NCSA Mosaic?

  18. Joe Tiber says:

    Sorry but before Netscape I used Mosaic in 1993…

  19. How Netscape got screwed when Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows OS