There are many browsers, and the kind that you use depends on the kind of connection that you have to the Internet. They make it possible for you to view formatted text and images, and also sound and video. The browsers were limited to delivering text. Although it does gi ve you only the textual content of pages, it is very useful. Using your browser, you traverse, or navigate, the pages through links or hypertext.
Links usually appear as underlined or otherwise highlighted text, but they can also be images.
With most browsers, you can tell if text or an image is a link by moving th e mouse pointer over the object. If the pointer changes to a finger, hand, or other symbol, then the object is a link, or clickable, which means that clicking on it will take you to another page. In other words, the Web browser can be your single interface to the Internet. The first web browser was Mosaic, and it is credited with putting the Web revolution in high gear. Although the Web has been around for quite a few years, it didn't become popular, and easily accessible, until 1993.