Growth

Early adopters of the World wide web were mainly university based scientific departments and laboratries such as Fermilab and SLAC. These departments created websites with links for both HTTP and Gopher protocol, which provided access to content of the web through hypertext menus presented as a file system rather than through HTML files.

In April 1992, Erwise was released which is an application created at the Univirsity of Technology in Helsinki. In May, Pei-Yuan Wei created ViolaWWW which included advanced features like embedded graphics, animation and scripting.

In 1993 Mosaic was created. This was a web browser made by a team at the National Centre of Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina were both students at the Univeristy of Illinois released an X Windows browser in Febuary in 1993. This browser gained alot of popularity because of its strong support of integrated multimedia. When Andreessen graduated, him and Jim Clark met and created Mosaic Communications Corporation to develop the browser commercially. It then changed its name to the more well known Netscape in April 1994.

Microsoft created a browser called Cello, which was written by Thomas Bruce for the Cornell Law School to provide the school with legal information, as most lawyers had access to windows. Cello was released commerically in June 1993