Encyclopedia
Software and platforms
This department
Browsers, servers, databases, content management systems and editors: the software that built the web, past and present.
Entries
18 of 18 planned entries are published. New entries are added in batches, and every one is checked against its sources before it goes live.
- NCSA Mosaic: The 1993 browser that took the web mainstream
- Netscape Navigator: The first commercial browser giant
- Internet Explorer: Microsoft's browser, dominance and retirement
- Mozilla Firefox: Netscape's open-source heir
- Google Chrome: Chromium, V8 and today's share
- Apache HTTP Server: The server that ran most of the early web
- Nginx: The event-driven server built for heavy traffic
- MySQL: The database of the LAMP stack, and MariaDB
- WordPress: From a 2003 blog fork to a large share of all sites
- Drupal: The CMS for complex sites
- Joomla: The Mambo fork and its place among CMSs
- Macromedia Dreamweaver: The visual editor of the 1990s and 2000s
- Microsoft FrontPage: WYSIWYG editing for the masses
- Adobe Flash: Animation, intros and games until 2020
- GeoCities: The free homepage community, 1994 to 2009
- jQuery: The library that tamed browser differences
- React: The component era
- Node.js: JavaScript on the server