Mosaic

World-Wide Web, tool NCSA's browser (client) for the

World-Wide Web.

Mosaic has been described as "the killer application of the

1990s" because it was the first program to provide a slick

multimedia graphical user interface to the Internet's

burgeoning wealth of distributed information services

(formerly mostly limited to FTP and Gopher) at a time when

access to the Internet was expanding rapidly outside its

previous domain of academia and large industrial research

institutions.

NCSA Mosaic was originally designed and programmed for the XWindow System by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA.

Version 1.0 was released in April 1993, followed by two

maintenance releases during summer 1993. Version 2.0 was

released in December 1993, along with version 1.0 releases for

both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. An

Acorn Archimedes port is underway (May 1994).

Marc Andreessen, who created the NCSA Mosaic research

prototype as an undergraduate student at the University ofIllinois left to start Mosaic Communications Corporation

along with five other former students and staff of the

university who were instrumental in NCSA Mosaic's design and

development.

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E-mail: [email protected] (X version),

[email protected] (Macintosh), [email protected]

(Windows version), [email protected] (general help).

(1995-04-06)