Mosaic Web Browser Released

Source: The Great Benefactor of Internet Popularisation: The “Mosaic” Web Browser Goes Online
From: PanX Technology
Date: April 22, 2016. Author: Seliao

The Mosaic browser was the first widely used web browser in internet history. Released in 1993 by the NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, it was the first browser capable of displaying both images and text in the same window and running on Microsoft operating systems — instantly explosive in popularity. The arrival of Mosaic was one of the sparks that lit the later internet boom.

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External Links

• One Idea Changes the World — The Birth and Development of the Internet (Science and Technology Panorama)
• Evolution of the Web (Timeline produced by the Google Chrome team)
• The History of Internet Technology: From ARPANet and the Internet to the Web (Young Technologist)