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Web browser is a special program designed for viewing websites. It works via http requests to the server and receiving from it the information that is processed by a special approved standards and thus formed a web page. A brief history of the browser The very first browser within graphic interface is NCSA by company Mosaic. However, despite the fact that it is a pioneer in the field of browsers, the Mosaic development was discontinued in 1997 due to market losses. These problems begun when some employees of the NCSA moved to Netscape company and started development of a new and more advanced browser - Netscape Navigator. New browser was supposed to provide support for better standards and be much easier to use. In the same time Microsoft…

win-win situation. It is not the binding rope that e claim it to be. But it is the key to moving forward. What good is a website if it stops working? What good is information if there 's no way of ensuring that all the people who need to access it can? Web Standards came into existence in 1994 in response to the “browser wars”. The wars were a result of the commercialization of the browser tool, the companies focusing more on new features rather than ensuring that the current offering of…

PY The company’s most popular product, Netscape Navigator, was the leading client software program that allowed individual personal computer (PC) users to exchange information and conduct commerce on the Internet. Navigator featured a click-and-point graphical user interface that enabled users to navigate the Internet by manipulating icons and windows rather than by using text commands. With the user-friendly interface as a guide, Navigator offered a variety of Internet functions…

Without American creations such as the Iphone, World Wide Web, and Search engines we would not be able to grow and connect with one another as freely as we can today. A prime example of how these things have helped us connect is when the American Company Netscape went public (Friedman 37). The creation of Netscape did two things, brought internet alive by giving the world the browser to display images and data stored on website, and data stored on websites. Netscape also triggered the dot-com…

Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen lived a fairly normal childhood, except for the fact that he was a computer genius. Andreessen was born to Lowell and Patricia Andreessen in Cedar Falls Iowa on July 9th, 1971. Although he got his computer in 7th grade, he learned the basic programming of a computer at the age of 9 from a library book. Andreessen never had any love of sports. He preferred experimenting with his computer and soon began to design video games when he had free time. He was given an…

In fact, those who pursue wealth -- even if they do so successfully -- are generally less happy than those who do not pursue wealth. What is the cause and effect relationship between pursuing wealth and unhappiness? Interestingly, it is not materialism which causes unhappiness directly, but that unhappiness and materialism are mutually reinforcing mechanisms. He notes that people who have experienced true deprivation are those who, later in life, are the most materialistic -- for example,…

Globalization 3.0 made the world go from small to tiny, it flattened it out. It is different from 1.0 and 2.0 because it has small groups and small countries trying to globalize to try to compete for others jobs. Globalization 3.0 is going to be more diverse than ever before (Globalization 101). The ten flatteners play a big role in the cause of the flattening of the global playing field. The first flattener is November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. When the wall came down it was a…

major political, innovations and companies that contributed to flattening the world. The first took place on November 9th, 1989, it is described as “When the walls came down and the windows came up.” The collapse of the Berlin Wall, symbolized the end of the Cold War. The wall was the barrier between people and then when it was down, the people on the other side were able to join mainstream people. This day is better known as the day communism fell. This had a greater impact on computers, where…

Having an economy without rent seeking and monopolies also encourages industrialization as people can freely apply their knowledge to contribute to the progress of the economy. Stiglitz cites the zero game that Microsoft used to shut out Netscape. All along, Microsoft had not seen the necessity to have a holistic web browser until Netscape came. With their advent, Microsoft made their browser available to the public for free and under the competition with a free product, Netscape crumbed. This…

Internet's World Wide Web. Web sites and web pages are written in HTML. With HTML and the World Wide Web, you have the ability to bring together text, pictures, sounds, and links all in one place. HTML files are plain text files, so they can be composed and edited on any type of computer Windows, Mac, and UNIX. The history of hypertext markup language is a strange and interesting tale. From its simple start as an online subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up Language), through political…