Evolt.org Browser Archive

The evolt.org browser archive is a large collection of over eighty independant web browsersold web browers for operating systems ranging from BeOS to OSX, many in amazing early pre-1.0 releases.

Notably for old computer collectors, the archive includes hard to find early web browers. A port of the Samba web browser from CERN, called MacWWW is available for Mac OS 6. The first web brower WorldWideWeb, later renamed Nexus, is available for the NeXTSTEP OS. The archive also has historically important web browsers, like Spyglass Mosaic, which was the basis for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Plus there are familar classics, such as NCSA's Mosaic and Netscape Navigator.

Most of the collection was provided to evolt.org by Adrian Roselli of Algonquin Studios, who used the archive to ensure the sites built by Algonquin were accessable. "Sometimes the only way to guarantee that a site is accessible to a user of Mosaic 3.0 is to install Mosaic 3.0 and view the site yourself," he said.1