NCSA Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic is an early web browser developed by the National Center of Supercomputing Applications, which was initially released in 23 January 1993.

NCSA Mosaic was also available as rebadged OEM releases, most notably being Spyglass Mosaic, but also, for example, Quarterdeck Mosaic. The former is infamously known as it was licensed to Microsoft to form Internet Explorer.

After one of the co-founders of NCSA, Marc Andressen, left the company to form the Netscape Communications Corporation, his company developed the Netscape Navigator, which quickly overtook NCSA Mosaic, especially on more widespread platforms, such as Windows or Mac OS. NCSA Mosaic, though, still had a foothold on UNIX systems and continued to be developed until 1998, after that the source code was made public.

Versions

 * NCSA Mosaic 1.0
 * NCSA Mosaic 2.0
 * NCSA Mosaic 3.0

Gallery
NCSAMosaic10.png|NCSA Mosaic 1.0 QMosaic20.png|Quarterdeck Mosaic 2.0 NCSAMosaic211.png|NCSA Mosaic 2.11 (Windows 3.1) NCSAMosaic211-Win95.png|NCSA Mosaic 2.11 (Windows 95) SpyglassMosaic211.png|Spyglass Mosaic 2.11 