The Little Arc of Browser History

The first mainstream browser, Mosaic, was released 33 years ago. A little earlier, in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the very first browser, WorldWideWeb. And if you look at it, there’s surprisingly little separating those early interfaces from the way modern browsers still look today.Indeed, the feature set of a traditional browser hasn’t changed all that much since its inception in 1990. You can argue otherwise, but most additions over the years have been incremental rather than transformati...