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First commercial graphical web browser was called Mosaic and it fundamentally popularized surfing the internet in 1993

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It is hard to fathom the internet as a completely text-based nightmare, but that was the reality until Mosaic showed up. It was the very first browser that allowed images to sit right next to text, completely blowing the minds of early netizens. It paved the way for Netscape, Internet Explorer, and eventually the 50 open Chrome tabs currently slowing down your RAM.

First commercial graphical web browser was called Mosaic and it fundamentally popularized surfing the internet in 1993
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