Early+Internet+Browers

The first widely used web browser was the NCSA Mosaic. Later the same Mosaic team also developed the first ever commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator. It was later ranamed to the Communicator and then it was again renamed back to Navigator. Netsacpe's Navigator was leading in user sharing until Microsoft's Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999. (This was due largely to Microsoft's widespread distribution advantages.) Although it was the first widely used web browser, the NCSA Mosaic was not the first ever web browser. The Worldwideweb, developed in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee was the first web browser. It was not very commonly used and virtualy discarded after the developement of the NCSA Mosaic.