Talk: The Dramatic History of the Web Browser
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the very first browser. Earlier this year, Microsoft, once the dominant player in the browser markets, moved away from their in-house rendering engine to building a new browser based on Google’s open-source Chromium project. With Google Chrome's own share of the browser market continuing to grow, does this mean Google have won the 'browser wars' and are comparisons with Microsoft's once dominant Internet Explorer fair? Now seems like a good time to re-examine the history of the web browser.
Starting with its humble beginnings amongst the international physics community we'll trace the browser’s journey through three decades of progress up to the present day. It's a story rife with competing corporations, lawsuits and surprise plot twists. Does history repeat itself and what could happen next to the web browser?
Events
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Brighton Web Development Meetup Online event
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WordPress North East Online event
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dotnet Sheffield
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dotnet York
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Umbraco Leeds
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McrFRED
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Leeds JS
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Front End Sheffield