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    In the early 1990s, using the internet required an understanding of complicated technical protocols and cryptic text-based interfaces. But Mosaic changed everything in 1993 by providing the first accessible graphical web browser, bringing the internet into the homes of millions of people worldwide.
    1993: NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first web browser to achieve popularity among the general public, is released. With it, the web as we know it begins to flourish. The web in the early 1990s was mostly text. People were posting images, photos, and audio or video clips on web pages. But these pieces of "multimedia" were hidden behind links.
    The Mosaic browser was first developed in 1991, and first officially released to the public in 1993.
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    Students Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the University of Illinois programmed one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface. Mosaic (full name NCSA Mosaic) worked on multiple platforms including Windows and was available for free, thanks to which it gained worldwide popularity among the general public shortly after being launched.
    Let's get this part out of the way: Mosaic was not the first web browser ever released. That honor belongs to WorldWideWeb, which was launched a few years before in 1990 by developer Tim Berners-Lee when he worked at CERN. Later other browsers like Viola and Cello were launched. However, Mosaic was different.
    Twenty-five years ago this week, a web browser called Mosaic was released to the public. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Before Mosaic existed, you had to know what you were looking for. With Mosaic, you had an easy way to discover things on the Internet.
    IE 1.0 was released in as an add-on to Windows 95 in the Microsoft Plus package in August 1995. So it was that by the mid '90s, Mosaic had become the most popular web browser of the early internet years.
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    Mosaic (web browser) - Wikipedia

    Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) [6] at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign beginning in late 1992, released in January 1993, [10] with official development and support until January 1997. [11] See more

    NCSA Mosaic was among the first widely available web browsers, instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics. Mosaic was the first browser to … See more

    The licensing terms for NCSA Mosaic were generous for a proprietary software program. In general, non-commercial use was free of charge for all versions (with certain limitations). … See more

    Mosaic led to the Internet boom of the 1990s. Other browsers existed during this period, such as Erwise, ViolaWWW, MidasWWW, and tkWWW, but did not have the same … See more

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    In December 1991, the Gore Bill was passed, which provided funding for new projects at the NCSA, where after trying ViolaWWW See more

    Robert Reid notes that Andreessen's team hoped:
    ... to rectify many of the shortcomings of the very primitive … See more

    Netscape Navigator was later developed by Netscape, which employed many of the original Mosaic authors; however, it intentionally shared … See more

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