<P> In 1992, Tony Johnson released the MidasWWW browser . Based on Motif / X, MidasWWW allowed viewing of PostScript files on the Web from Unix and VMS, and even handled compressed PostScript . Another early popular Web browser was ViolaWWW, which was modeled after HyperCard . In the same year the Lynx browser was announced--the only one of these early projects still being maintained and supported today . Erwise was the first browser with a graphical user interface, developed as a student project at Helsinki University of Technology and released in April 1992, but discontinued in 1994 . </P> <P> Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School started 1992, to develop Cello . When released on 8 June 1993 it was one of the first graphical web browsers, and the first to run on Windows: Windows 3.1, NT 3.5, and OS / 2 . </P> <P> However, the explosion in popularity of the Web was triggered by NCSA Mosaic which was a graphical browser running originally on Unix and soon ported to the Amiga and VMS platforms, and later the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms . Version 1.0 was released in September 1993, and was dubbed the killer application of the Internet . It was the first web browser to display images inline with the document's text . Prior browsers would display an icon that, when clicked, would download and open the graphic file in a helper application . This was an intentional design decision on both parts, as the graphics support in early browsers was intended for displaying charts and graphs associated with technical papers while the user scrolled to read the text, while Mosaic was trying to bring multimedia content to non-technical users . Mosaic and browsers derived from it had a user option to automatically display images inline or to show an icon for opening in external programs . Marc Andreessen, who was the leader of the Mosaic team at NCSA, quit to form a company that would later be known as Netscape Communications Corporation . Netscape released its flagship Navigator product in October 1994, and it took off the next year . </P> <P> IBM presented its own Web Explorer with OS / 2 Warp in 1994 . </P>

Which early browser was the first to run on multiple computer platforms including windows