reading machines (browsers)

To browse   means to read superficially or at random, shop around; not necessarily buying, feeding by continual nibbling. Old verb, retraces to 15th century . It gave origin, in the 19th century, to a substantive (browser) little used until the creation of the Mosaic, in the middle 90s.

Support par excellence of the on line reading, the most common browsers (Netscape and Internet Explorer) had almost transformed the network idea into the experience of a great 19th century library. Almost... Cyberspace is too big to be governed by only one synonym.

Some browsers alternative to Netscape and Explorer:

Ramelli's Reading Wheel (1588), paleobrowser

netomat - metabrowser

Riot - ultrabrowser

Wrong Browser - jodi´s browser

last updated in 2001