Most computers now are configured with at least one commercial browser and many have two or more. Today, with literary deconstructionism and politically correct speech, words still have meaning. Their meaning, though, is temporal in nature. Times change and frequently the meaning of words must change with them. The Internet fosters a compression of time, and, with Internet concepts changing more quickly than the words associated with them, a tremendous emphasis is put on the words that mark its evolution.
Time flies, and with it, the nomenclature of the Web.
The time has come to ask two simple but important questions. The term browser no longer accurately describes a product. It describes a feature of many products. Browser genes live on in a host of progeny ranging from second-generation Internet access products to completely integrated desktops like Netscape's Communicator. Bundling functionality into what used to be a browser is continuing at an accelerating rate.