For the "history" feature found in most web browsers, see Web browsing history.
The history of the web browser dates back to late 1980s when a variety of technologies laid the foundation for the first web browser, the WorldWideWeb, by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, which brought together a variety of existing and new software and hardware technologies.
n 1984, expanding on ideas from futurist Ted Nelson, Neil Larson's commercial DOS Maxthink outline program added angle bracket hypertext jumps (adopted by later web browsers) to and from ASCII, batch, and other Maxthink files up to 32 levels deep.
n 1987, these capabilities were included in his then popular shareware DOS file browser programs HyperRez (memory resident) and PC Hypertext (which also added jumps to programs, editors, graphic files containing hot spots jumps, and cross-linked theraurus/glossary files).
In April 1990, a draft patent application for a mass market consumer device for browsing pages via links "Page Link" was proposed by Craig Cock burn at Digital Equipment Co Ltd (DEC) whilst working in their Networking and Communications division in Reading, England.
The patent was canned by Digital as too futuristic and, being largely hardware based, had obstacles to market that purely software driven approaches did not suffer from.
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