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Mosaic

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NCSA Mosaic : The first graphical Web browser, 25 years later. A "Cooking With Linux" quickie!

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Let's surf the Web of the 90s with Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer on Pentium PCs of the 90s

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First Web Browser in History (Mosaic) – Fun Internet Facts

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Early days of Mosaic & Netscape Browsers Marc Andreessen Jim Clark John Doerr

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Mosaic the first widely used web browser

NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols. Its intuitive interface, reliability, Microsoft Windows port and simple installation all contributed to its popularity within the web, as well as on Microsoft operating systems. Mosaic was also the first browser to display images inline with text instead of displaying images in a separate window. While often described as the first graphical web browser, Mosaic was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise and ViolaWWW.