The first popular web browser with a graphical user interface, Mosaic, was released in 1993. Accessible to non-technical people, it played a prominent role in the rapid growth of the nascent World Wide Web. The lead developers of Mosaic then founded the Netscape corporation, which released a more polished browser, Netscape Navigator, in 1994. This quickly became the most-used.

During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language.
Which programming languages did Netscape try to add to their browser in order to make it more dynamic?
The programming languages Netscape tried to add to their browser to make it more dynamic were Java and Scheme.

In 1995, Netscape pursued two routes to add dynamic behavior to their browser, Netscape Navigator:
1. Collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language
2. Hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language