Sniff. Those children of ours get so old so quickly Today is the tenth birthday of Apple's Safari web browser, so have a little cake or maybe propose a toast to the default Mac and iOS browser.
The first version of Safari was released as a public beta exactly ten years ago today. The app was designed by Apple to replace Microsoft Internet Explorer, which was the default Mac browser up to OS X 10.2.
Steve Jobs introduced Safari at Macworld San Francisco on January 7, 2003, announcing that Apple based the browser on the company's internal fork of the KHTML rendering engine -- Webkit. The first official version was released on June 23, 2003.
Safari's little brother for iOS made its debut in 2007 along with the iPhone. As of today