Mosaic Web Browser History - NCSA, Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina
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Mosaic — The First Global Web Browser
- Marc Andreessen
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- Marc Andreessen, NCSA Mosaic Technical Summary, Feb
20, 1993.
Mosaic was the first popular Web browser, and greatly helped spread
use and knowledge of the web across the world.
In 1992, Joseph Hardin and Dave Thompson worked at the NCSA
(National Center for Supercomputer Applications), a research institute
at the University of Illinois. When they heard about Tim Berners-Lee’s
work, they downloaded the ViolaWWW browser, and then
demonstrated the web to NCSA’s Software Design Group by connecting
to the web server at CERN over the Internet. The group was duly
impressed.
Two students from the group, Marc…
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