With an introduction in around 1991, their development and advancement have advanced many folds till the current stage which we see today.Įarlier there used to be mostly text-based sites with few having images and graphical content, hence only text-based browsers sufficed with some of the early browsers being: Lynx, w3m, and eww.īut, with the advancement of technology to support audio, video, images and even flash content, browsers also need to be that advanced to support such content.
Web Browser is a software that provides an interface to surf the web.