Chapter 264 Turmoil

In the spring of '92, the internet had already begun to overflow with various browsers; it was no secret.

Four students from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland created a browser for Unix operating systems called "Enwise."

Wei Peiyuan, a student from California Berkeley, likewise developed North America's first native browser for Unix, "ViolaWWW."

The suffix of three "W"s in the name was a tribute to the abbreviation of the World Wide Web.

And these browsers, including the World Wide Web itself, were all software based on the Unix system.

Windows, with a larger installation base and aimed at individual users, was ignored by many.

This wasn't surprising considering most of those who developed these browsers came from academic or research institutions.

At the time, Unix systems were widely used in these institutions due to their stability.

Thus in the tech community, among geeks, whenever there was any new idea, it mostly first emerged on Unix systems.