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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 🐸

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R.L. Dane

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Feb 22

@paul @moses_izumi @joel

Heh, "early internet feels" for me would be #NCSA Mosaic and/or accessing the web through telnet on DOS and a 1200-baud modem. XD

MacintoshGarden Feed Jan 28

Government Raster Image Processing Software and Data (GRIPS) 2

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/government-raster-image-processing-software-and-data-grips-2

A collection of image processing software and example files. Some familiar apps here like NIH Image, and some non-graphic related ones like NCSA Telnet, archivers and Disinfectant.

#macgarden #SoftwareCompilations #VisualArtsGraphics #1990 #MeridianData #NationalGeophysicalDataCenter #NationalInstituteofHealth #NCSA #SpyglassInc

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Douglas Edwards

Jan 16

@pathfinder @Energetic_Nova @autistics There's even an impulse toward #filicide in these "severe autism" groups, that occasionally surfaces openly. They released a ghastly film in 2006 called "Autism Every Day", in which #AlisonSinger — who has occupied prominent roles in both #AutismSpeaks (which released the film) and #NCSA — admitted to fantasies of driving off a bridge with her #autistic daughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Every_Day

Autism Every Day - Wikipedia

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Douglas Edwards

Jan 15

@Energetic_Nova @pathfinder @autistics I do indeed believe we need better subtyping of autism. My theory of #kaleidotropy is an effort in that direction. But we're unlikely to get anything good from the #NCSA crowd. Their quest for the "causes of autism" is a search-and-destroy mission. They want to find a way to prevent any more of us from being born. Secondarily, they want to show that our autism is not "severe" so we don't merit any help.

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Douglas Edwards

Jan 15

@pathfinder @autistics I even think that's why certain neurotypical biomedical scientists, and their allies of the stripe of #AutismSpeaks and the National Council on Severe Autism (#NCSA), spend so much effort "feigning hypotheses" as to the "causes of autism": they aren't willing to accept our existence without first reductively pathologizing us as the product of some identifiable genetic defect.

US Research Software Engineers Dec 19

Check the spotlight of one of the premier founding members of US-RSE, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( #NCSA ), on how they help promote RSE's impact on #research and provide valuable resources!

👉 Full Link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7407789308620853248/?actorCompanyId=53270534

#RSE #RSEng #ResearchSoftware #ResearchComputing #ResearchData

Calling all papers Nov 29

24 hours until the CfP for "Cybersec Asia x Thailand International Cyber Week 2026 (powered by NC…" closes: https://papercall.io/cfps/6360/submissions/new

#cfp #conference #Cybersec asia #Cybersecurity #Data management #Cloud #Thailand international cyber week #Ncsa #Cybersec #Bangkok #Thailand #Cybersecasia #Vnu #Data #Ai #Security

PaperCall.io

Willard Goosey Sep 8, 2025

Heh, oops!
I was starting to think one of the MSDOS programs I use had broken somehow... Turns out it was wattcp.cfg had become outdated.😞

This summer, for the first time in 15+ years, the default state of my main server has been "off" rather than "on" and it can't be my local nameserver if it's off!

Humm, NCSA telnet is probably broken too, and I wouldn't notice because all my local hosts are specified in it's config file...

#WatTCP #NCSA #DOS #RetroComputing