Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
Mosaic - The Browser Popularized the Web
This section provides a quick introduction of Mosaic Web browser, the first graphical Web browser that popularized the World Wide Web, originally by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina and released in 1993.
Mosaic was the Web browser that popularized the Web or WWW (World Wide Web). Mosaic was originally developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. The first version, Mosaic 1.0 , was released in 1993 for Unix's X Window System. In the same year, Mosaic was ported to Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows systems.
Main features of Mosaic 1.0:
Here is a picture of a Mosaic browser screen on a Microsoft Windows system (Source: http://www.nsf.gov/):
Table of Contents
2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
►1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee - Father of the Web
►Mosaic - The Browser Popularized the Web
Netscape Navigator - The Most Popular Web Browser in 1990s
Internet Explorer - The Most Popular Web Browser since 1999
Mozilla Firefox - The Most Popular Open Source Web Browser
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs