History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

Posted by smushy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:03PM
from the webaim.org dept.

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

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Re:History of the browser user-agent string (2008) by netsharc on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:17PM (#46786918)

Ah, 2008. It didn't even reach the introduction of the iPhone user agent for a new mobile browsing experience, and then every mobile browser pretending to be an iPhone to get the same design...

What was it before the iPhone? WAP?

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Re:History of the browser user-agent string (2008) by stevekemp on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:10AM (#46847143)

Microsoft didn't write Internet Explorer, they licensed it from Spyglass, they had a "Spyglass Mosaic browser" which was ultimately based on Mosaic.

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