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Andrew Dobrow
What was the first browser you ever used?
Mosaic, I think. Under Windows 3.1 - Rubin Sfadj
Mosaic - Mo Kargas
lynx - Rodfather
Internet Explore I think. - Colide81 (James)
Whatever was running on win 3.1 in '93... - FFing Enigma
Mosaic - I thought it was REALLY lame. "Ooh, look. A picture. And some text. Wow. *yawn*" - iTad
Mosaic, on an RS/6000. - Joey Gibson
Netscape. - Yolanda
Mosaic 2.0 alpha 1. One of the guys on my floor in the dorms immediately pointed it to pr0n. Yes, they had pr0n on the Internet in 1994, and not just on Usenet. - Victor Ganata
netscape - Anika
Mosaic 1.0 for the Mac - Adam Turetzky
Mosaic. I probably still have the laptop I ran it on, too. ;) - Cyndy
Netscape. - Ayşe E.
Mosaic 1.0, Mac - Michael Markman
I'm thinking Netscape, not really sure. - Rahsheen the Dream
Mosaic, after wrestling the src filenames into sysV's 14 char limit. - Kevin Johnson
Netscape. Mos def. My first computer was an Apple IIE - Mattie Kenny
Lol - same as Tina :) - WoH: Minding her Steves
netscape - JA Castillo
Netscape - Steve Spalding
Mosaic, on the first day it was released. - Sean McBride
Mosaic - Shey
Netscape 1 - Tai
Netscape - Johnny
Mosaic on Sun Sparc 5 running some ancient SunOS. The Netscape betas were a revelation - mattpovey
netscape. - Trent Olson
Uh. I don't know if it had a name... it was 1994, I was on Delphi... it wasn't graphical... - Nine Ferdinand
Mosaic - NoahDavidSimon
Mosaic through Compuserve - Sheraz Mahmood from twhirl
Mine was one of the original versions of Prodigy. - Andrew Dobrow
Netscape I think, whatever was on the Unix systems at Uni back in 1995. - Stu Andrews
Mosaic under SunOS 4, I think. - Morton Fox
for some reason I assumed we meant graphical browser. my first experience on the Internet was through lynx. On Linux. Running on a 486 50 MHz. - Victor Ganata
Well... my first experience of a non-graphical would have to be when I went to work with my dad who was a managing editor for a newspaper, the original news wire internet was my first real experience. - Andrew Dobrow
lynx! and i have a very clear recollection of the first time I saw a graphical browser, Mosaic, IMDB. moving stars on a black background, jaw droppingly amazing. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
First browser = Mosaic via some type of Sun workstation when I was a PhD student in computer science at U of Tennessee. - Mike Reynolds
lynx ...the text-based browser from u of kansas. i guess gopher does not count... - kamla bhatt
ah gopher. nope, it was a different protocol, not http. do gopher servers actually still exist? - Victor Ganata
Lynx - Duncan Riley
Netscape Navigator 2.x - DAVE ID
Probably IE or whatever came with Windows 3.1. The old BBS didn't really have a browser, did it? - Kol Tregaskes
Netscape Navigator - not sure which version - Ben Austwick
Air or NCSA Mosaic (I think?? .... It's been a while!) - Charlie Anzman