Computing

When Netscape applied for an initial public offering of stock in August 1995, the resulting frenzy set off a bubble that made all the other Silicon Valley doings pale by comparison. The bubble eventually burst, but in its wake, the Web had established itself as not only an information service but a viable method of doing business.

Another feature that Netscape introduced was a way of tracking a user’s interaction with a Web site over successive screens, an obvious feature but something not designed into the Web architecture. Netscape’s browser did so by an identifying number called a “cookie”

Berners-Lee also wrote a program, called a browser, that users installed on their computer to decode and properly display the information transmitted over the Web