User Preference Browser Survey Web browsers are software programs that allow you to access the World Wide Web, the graphical portion of the Internet. The first graphical browser that supported point and click, called NCSA Mosaic, was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1993. Browsers have very quickly become an essential part of our life. They have evolved from simple viewers of static Web pages to become the centerpiece in a suite of Internet client applications that offer rich tools for communicating, sharing information, experiencing interactive content, providing a means for Internet Commerce, and developing dynamic pages in a short amount of time.
All browsers have some basic functionality.
There is a back button to go back to previously viewed pages. There is a forward button to go ahead to pages already viewed. There is a stop button to stop the loading of pages if you do not wish view anything else on the page. This home page can be altered to be anything by changing the properties of the browser. There is usually a print button to print the current page.