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1.                 From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   browser
    n.
       A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext,
       on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been
       present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the
       World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a
       central or default techspeak meaning of the word previously lacking in
       hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a ‘browser’ without
       qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser.