π Bookmarked: Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
“From the archives: Does anybody remember Erwise? Viola? Cello? Let’s reminisce.”
Tim Berners-Lee’s original 1990 WorldWideWeb browser was both a browser and an editor. That was the direction he hoped future browser projects would go. CERN has put together a reproduction of its formative content. As you can see in the screenshot below, by 1993 it offered many of the characteristics of modern browsers.