Good old "Disable brower's Back button" question.

I don't have to implement it. I am posing this question just out of curosity . Is there a way we can somehow disable Back button on our browser starting second page onwards?
I recently browsed one site that had "Next" and Previous" buttons on each page. Surprisingly Back button on all the pages was disabled.
I know, when we open the first page for browsing, Back button is disabled by default. Is there a way we can force browser to treat each and every page as the first page? How did they implement this functionality?
Thanks.

If you're using JSPs, simply ensure that they are not being cached by the browser.
<%
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache");
response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache");
response.setDateHeader ("Expires", 0);
%>Otherwise, there are a couple of ways to do this via Javascript.

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Can anyone tell me how to disable the FORWARD and BACK Button of Internet Explorer through JavaScript.......If possible give me the code snippet.....

You can not do this in JavaScript.
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