Navigator refers to the person specialized in the handling of ships or aircraft, also known as navigator. In computing, the program (software) that allows access to different places on the Internet or other computer communications network and navigate from one to another using hyperlinks is known as a Web Browser. The Web browser allows you to connect to network servers to access hypertext documents (HTML) and their associated files (Web pages) and to follow document connections from page to page. The server can be on a private network (intranet) or on the Internet.
Helper applications can be incorporated with the browser to handle special files and applications. Today's browsers allow the display or execution, in addition to text and hyperlinks, of graphics, video sequences, sound, animations and various programs. The first Internet browser was Mosaic, created in 1993 by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois (United States). It was originally developed on UNIX, but was soon released on Windows. In 1994, Netscape Navigator, a browser for Windows, Macintosh, and various variants of UNIX, appeared from Netscape Communications Corporation.
A year later, Microsoft introduced its Internet Explorer; It was an independent program, but as of Windows 98 it was offered integrated into the operating system, which made it easier for it to become the most widely used explorer. After Microsoft's bet, Netscape made the decision to release the source code of its browser, Mozilla being born, which later gave way to Mozilla Firefox. Currently, there are various browsers, some more popular than others, but which have made many people prefer them, instead of using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, these browsers are Opera, Safari (launched by Apple) and Google Chrome (released by Google).
