Mosaic graphical web browser
Navegador gráfico Mosaic
- Date
- 1993 · confidence high
- Place
- NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Credited to
- Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina (NCSA); Netscape Navigator in 1994
- People
- 👤 Tim Berners-Lee1955–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
First popular browser with images embedded in the text, easy to install on Windows and Mac. It set off the explosion of the web and the dot-com boom.
The first browser was Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb (1990) for the NeXT; ViolaWWW and Erwise were graphical browsers that predated Mosaic.
What it led to
- Netscape, the browser wars and the antitrust trial against Microsoft
- The dot-com bubble and the commercialisation of the internet
- The web as a visual and advertising medium
Built on
Made possible
- SSL/TLS and HTTPS1994-1995
- E-commerce (Amazon, eBay)1994-1995
- JavaScript1995
- Netscape Navigator
- Internet Explorer