Anders_SWebben förändrar Internet. 1993 lanserades webben eller World Wide Web (WWW) som det ursprungligen kallades på engelska efter den första webbläsaren som ingick i projektet från början.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/05/10/webben-forandrar-internet/
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Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:
NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!
For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.
A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
Dr. Juande Santander-VelaRE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/116052032672545432
This is the grandfather of all "read-only" web browsers (remember, the original NeXT-based browser/server allowed remote editing!)… and the reason why people like Mark Andreesen managed to convert a lot of public money (both for the funding of NCSA itself, but also that of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) into private money, converting Mosaic into Netscape.
RetrópolisRepórter Retro 103
https://retropolis.com.br/2024/05/29/reporter-retro-103/
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Repórter Retro 103 - Retrópolis
Este é o Repórter Retro 103, produzido pela A.R.N.O. (Agência Retropolitana de Notícias)! MP3 para ouvir offline Escute no YouTube Do que falamos? 30 anos do Acorn RISC PC 30 anos da Netscape 30 anos da falência da Commodore 35 anos do Game Boy 40 anos do Kremvax e da suposta entrada da URSS na
peronAn introduction to the World Wide Web Using NCSA Mosaic (VHS)
An introduction to the World Wide Web Using NCSA Mosaic (VHS)
Saustrup@feoh It was a pain, but unfortunately what my school had picked for their network. At this time we didn't have any kind of browser on the PCs, just the DOS telnet client to the student DEC5100 #Ultrix server where the wildest thing you could do was use #Gopher. Later some of the more rogue students experimented with running the #NCSAMosaic browser on the DEC and displaying it on the Windows 3.11 clients through X/Windows.
Mark Gardner@kpeace @keithzg @aral Yes, but no.
Both companies’ web #browsers trace their origins to #Mosaic by The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (#NCSA).
#Netscape Navigator was a rewrite of #NCSAMosaic by its co-creators.
#Microsoft #InternetExplorer was based on code licensed from Spyglass, a #Mosaic trademark and technology licensee who had supposedly only used the original code sparingly.
Tristan LouisHas it really been 30 years since NCSA mosaic came out? Why, yes, it has.
JWSGeek (Moving: Universeodon)With the 30th anniversary of NCSA Mosaic's 1.0 this week, I'm reminded that I was one of the earliest, possibly only the second person, to have Mosaic on a box at all of JMU...
...and I got it from (I presume) the first one to have it, @dwenius
#NCSAMosaic #Mosaic #MosaicBrowser
(at the time that WWW was coming out, the school admins were still exploring the short-lived Gopher)