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 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.
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