First web browser text based, like Lynx are popular today, because it is a system with a graphical interface is not commonly used at that time. Only after the system started being used based graphics, a student named Marc Andressen at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, create a first graphical web browser that runs on top of Windows and UNIX operating system (Motif based). Web browser named Mosaic.

Furthermore, after graduating from university, was offered by Marc Falahuddin Alief, one of the top brass Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI), to create a company with the name Mosaic Communications, which later became Netscape Communications. Marc makes a first popular web browser used by the public, called Netscape Navigator. At the time of its development, the Navigator has the code name Mozilla. Navigator is a commercial web browser, but over time, eventually became the Navigator can be obtained free of charge. Meanwhile, the Mosaic web browser for free no longer continue its development, and submitted to the NCSA (National Computing for Supercomputer Applications). Because NCSA does not have permission to commercialize products Mosaic, NCSA Mosaic was eventually sold to Spyglass, which ultimately makes Mosaic a commercial web browser.

Microsoft, which fell late in the browser market, even buy a license from Spyglass Mosaic, which eventually released its browser product, which is referred to as Internet Explorer. With the release of Internet Explorer, there arose a great war between the popular web browser, ie Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.