NCSA Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic is an early web browser developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which was initially released on 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 employees of NCSA, Marc Andreessen, left the center to form the Netscape Communications Corporation, his company developed the Netscape Navigator (codenamed Mozilla, which was originally ment to be "Mosaic killer"), 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 1997, after that the source code was made public. This lead to forks of NCSA Mosaic being created, which lasted until as late as 2015.

Versions

 * NCDS Mosaic 0.6 (1993): Beta version
 * NCSA Mosaic 1.0 (1993): First version to be released, used as base for Netscape Navigator
 * NCSA Mosaic 2.0 (1994): First version for Windows 95, last version for Windows 3.1x, Win32s is now required for the latter
 * NCSA Mosaic 2.1 (1995):
 * NCSA Mosaic 3.0 (1997): Last version to be released

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 