Yes it was the first one to become dominant in the marketplace, with approximately 90% of the market share in the mid 1990's. Microsoft internet Explorer became its main competitor, and eventually became more widely used.
The first web browser was WorldWideWeb, which was later renamed Nexus (not to be confused with Google's Nexus).
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Netscape Navigator
Netscape Wrote the first web browser and it was called Netscape Navigator
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Marc Andreesen created the first web browser, Netscape, in 1994.
Original answer: Netscape Navigator (in 1994)Another thought: people reading magazines in a store
The first web browser was actually named WorldWideWeb, and it was programmed to work with the NeXT operating system. It even included tools to build a web page.
The first version of Netscape, a popular early 90's internet browser and portal, was released sometime in the year of 1994 and then lost popularity in the following years.
It pretty much all started out as Mosaic Communications. Later renamed to Netscape, their browser became a huge success (reportedly owning 80%+ of the browser market share) due to the fact that they had many extensions to the HTML language, looking better than the standard HTML most browsers support. With the release of Windows 95, Microsoft hauled and eventually began to catch up with netscape. One advantage in Internet Explorer was the fact that it was free, compared to Netscape's included price tag. By 1998, Netscape became free and open source, later then merging with AOL. With Mozilla releasing about then, the rest is history.
I presume, NCSA's Mosaic released on April 22, 1993, followed by Netscape's Navigator the next year.
The first browser was "WorldWideWeb", soon followed by Mosaic and Lynx (which is still in use).Mosaic, also know as Netscape went out of business because of Microsoft; you know browser wars.Netscape made a new browser, know as Mozilla (1998), which eventually provided the basis for Firefox in 2004. AOL is now in charge of the official Netscape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)