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