# WebAIM: History of the browser user-agent string

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

- Host: [webaim.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/webaim.org/)
- Saved: June 26, 2025 (2025-06-26T22:43:57Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/99697b8e0079/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/99697b8e0079.json

## What Jamie wrote

Wild history of the User-Agent string.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT325: Weekly Thing 325 / Platform, Agents, Legacy](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/325/), Briefly

## Saved the same week

- [The Iconfactory: Pixel Portraits](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/78a02b384b89/) (iconfactory.com, June 26, 2025)
- [Mechanical Watch: Exploded View - Fredrik F. Ellertsen](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7f1179c7a786/) (fellerts.no, June 26, 2025)
- [Warp: Introducing Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7768a5e82073/) (warp.dev, June 26, 2025)
- [Google announces Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7fb7f0046257/) (blog.google, June 26, 2025)
- [Fun with uv and PEP 723](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9067c464acb8/) (cottongeeks.com, June 26, 2025)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/