

Spyglass Mosaic was later licensed by Microsoft, and it was modified and renamed Internet Explorer. Their own web browser but never used any of the NCSA Mosaic source code. licensed the technology and trademarks from NCSA for producing We created Mosaic so that designers don't lose vision while creating a UI. Generate beautiful complimentary colors randomly or from our trusted trending palettes. (SGI) along with four other former students and staff of the universityĪnd started Mosaic Communications Corporation which became Netscape Communications Corporation, producing Netscape Navigator.ĭevelopment of Mosaic began in December 1992. Mosaic is your new BFF for generating the perfect palette for your UI. NCSA-UIUC ( University of Illinois) and with Jim Clark, one of the founders of Silicon Graphics, Inc. The leader of the team that developed it, Marc Andreesen left Its brief reign as a major browser there were always constraints on permissible uses without payment.

#Mosaic browser software
Mosaic was never released as open source software during Summary:Ayoung Marc Andreessen and a team of programmers at the NCSA on the campus of the University of Illinois create and publish the Mosaic browser.

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#Mosaic browser code
In addition, the X Window System / Unix version publicly provided source code (sourceĬode for the other versions was available after agreements were signed). Generally free (with certain limitations). The licensing terms for NCSA Mosaic were generous for a proprietary software program. An Acorn Archimedes port was underway in May 1994. Version 1.0 releases for both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Version 2.0 was released in December 1993, along with By 1995, Microsoft had licensed Mosaic as the basis for its own early browser Internet Explorer, but by that point Netscape Navigator dominated the browser. Version 1.0 was released on April 22, 1993, followed by two maintenance releases during summer 1993. System by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. NCSA Mosaic was originally designed and programmed for the X Window Wealth of distributed information services (formerly mostly limited to FTP, Usenet and Gopher) at a time whenĪccess to the Internet was expanding rapidly outside its previous domain of academia and large industrial research Mosaic was described as "the killer application of theġ990s" because it was the first program to provide a slick multimedia graphical user interface to the Internet's burgeoning Mosaic is a web browser (client) for the World Wide Web written at the National Center
