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help| ViolaWWW, first developed in the early 1990s, was the first popular web browser (though to a limited audience) which, until Mosaic, was the most frequently used web browser for access to the World Wide Web. Gillies and Cailliau in How the Web was Born offer an extensive history of the development of Viola. Viola was the invention of Pei-Yuan Wei, who at the time was a student at the University of... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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ViolaWWW
ViolaWWW, first developed in the early 1990s, was the first popular web browser (though to a limited audience) which, until Mosaic, was the most frequently used web browser for access to the World Wide Web. -
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University of California, Berkeley
In 1992 Pei-Yuan Wei, an undergraduate at the XCF, created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers. -
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Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog
While Krol notes that a number of web browser options exist, he highlights ViolaWWW stating that, "The one called Viola or 'ViolaWWW' is probably the most feature rich" (p.227). -
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Mosaic (web browser)
Other browsers existed during this period, notably Erwise, ViolaWWW, MidasWWW, and Cello. -
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History of the Internet
One early popular web browser, modeled after HyperCard, was ViolaWWW. -
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HyperCard
It was also a key inspiration for ViolaWWW, an early web browser. -
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World Wide Web
An early popular Web browser was ViolaWWW, which was based upon HyperCard. -
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Browser wars
These included many Unix browsers including Line-mode, ViolaWWW, Erwise and MidasWWW, as well as MacWWW (also known as Samba) for the Mac. -
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Internet
An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW, patterned after HyperCard and built using the X Window System. -
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WorldWideWeb
A number of early browsers appeared, notably ViolaWWW.
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