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Foil 10 The World Wide Web and Mosaic Phenomenon as Killer Applications -- I

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Why was WWW/Mosaic so succesful so quickly ?
  • Perfect timing to take advantage of press coverage of information superhighway and Gore's Nation al Information Infrastructure
  • Free but very high quality software which compared very favorably with:
    • Commercial PC Multimedia authoring and interface software which are non standard complex and confusing
  • The amount of open software reached a critical size when one can start building free systems out of free components. The Internet itself allowed convenient access to and dissemination of this material
Where will WWW/Mosaic go next ?
  • Near term situation is unclear as there is competition in standards and implementations between NCSA (Originating institution) + licensees and the Original authors now in NCC (Netscape Corp.)
  • In the long term both this mode of producing software and the product itself will have profound impact on the whole computing industry

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