PlanetWeb
- Engine: Custom
- OS: Game Console
- Status: Discontinued
This page was last updated at: May 6, 2026
GlobeHopper was a Desktop web browser that ran on some kind of miscellaneous desktop operating system. It was developed by Brother.
An extremely obscure old browser; it looks to have been made by the Brother Corporation and run on a device made by Brother called a GeoBook.
See the link below where someone has gone to an amazing effort of getting it to run on an old Geobook, and taken lots of screenshots of the whole process; it includes a lot of screenshots of the web browser, as the author works to get it to load modern web pages. Very cool.
| Browser made by | Brother |
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| Development Status |
Discontinued The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
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| Operating System |
Misc Desktop OS
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| Device platform | Desktop |
| Rendering Engine | Custom |
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Blog article
2023-06-23
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O Brother GeoBook, Let's Get Thou back on the Internet? |
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Blog article
2020-02-11
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GeoBook – The Failed Budget 386sx Laptop in an era of Pentiums |
These web browsers have something in common with GlobeHopper, you could test them out and compare them.