Larry Magid: World Wide Web Turns 25

When you went on the Internet back in those days, you used UNIX, which was still true even after Berners-Lee invented the Web. If you aren’t familiar with UNIX, just think of a really complicated command language that the average person wouldn’t be able to figure out.

Perhaps the most popular early browser most people are familiar with and many of us used it, was Netscape Navigator. The browser that preceded that was Mosaic, which was co-founded by venture capitalist and millionaire, Marc Andreessen. He would actually go on to co-found Netscape.

What eventually killed Netscape was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer when they started bundling it with Windows. It’s an important piece of history and all of that helped create what we have today.

Berners-Lee, or Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to be exact, was knighted by the Queen and is still very active. He was recently given the honor of asking Edward Snowden the first question at his SXSW appearance where he talked about Internet privacy.