Mosaic was the first widely-distributed graphical browser
or viewer for the World Wide Web. It is usually considered to have been the software that
introduced the World Wide Web
and the Internet
to a wide general audience. Once Mosaic was available, the Web virtually exploded in numbers of
users and content sites. The success of Mosaic depended on the recent invention and adoption of
Hypertext Transfer Protocol by Tim Berners-Lee.)
Mosaic arrived in 1993. Marc Andreessen, then in his early 20s, is credited with inventing or
leading the development of Mosaic. He developed it at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. Andreessen and others went on to become part of
Netscape Communications, originally called Mosaic Communications. Netscape then produced what was,
for a while, the world's most popular browser, Netscape
Navigator.
The original Mosaic, now in a later version, has since been licensed for commercial use and is
provided to users by several Internet access providers.
Other Web browsers include Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Apple Computer's Safari, Opera
and Lynx.
Contributor(s): Chuck Bury and Silvia Lovato
This was last updated in October 2006
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