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Foil 9 Historical Overview of World Wide Web and Mosaic -- II

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
NCSA Mosaic 1993
  • Started as a small project inspired by Berners-Lee visit
  • Involved team of NCSA/UIUC undergraduates led by Marc Andreessen
  • The goal was to make the WWW more usable
  • First public release of Mosaic was summer 1993 but
  • New York Times article in december 1993 triggered world-wide interest
Commercial Web Products
  • Mosaic developers join with Clark from Silicon Graphics to form the Netscape Communication Corporation
  • Another set of Commercial implementations of NCSA Mosaic by official NCSA licensees
  • There is built in Web Browsing support in the new generation of PC Software including OS/2 ver 3.0 and Windows95/Chicago

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