Need a lift? A little helpful push? Get ready for your journey into fear. Take that fateful step off the pier and into the ride of your life. Pay in advance. Get more friendly advice than you thought you needed. Who knows? You might even get a ride back. Mosaic First web browser. Ever. Developed in November 1993 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. Popular with purists with elbow patches. Available for Macintosh, UNIX, and Windows. Netscape Navigator Second web browser. Developed in early 1995 by the same team that built Mosaic -- after they joined forces with former executives of Federal Express and Silicon Graphics. Most popular browser on earth. Available in almost a dozen languages for every platform known to man. Internet Explorer Last web browser. Developed in late 1996 by a constipated company that is consitutionally incapable of viewing open systems as anything more than a threat to MS-DOS. Especially popular with the Chaos Computer Club, which in January 1997 used ActiveX controls to break into bank accounts on German national television. Available for MS-Windows, MS-Windows, and MS-Windows.