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@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org · last week

Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since.

Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "NCSA.UIUC.EDU/SDG/SOFTWARE/MOSAIC". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the NCSA website for the Mosaic browser from December 20, 1996, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone labeled "Now".

Ed Summers

@ink@merveilles.town replied · last week

@internetarchive & try it out in Mosaic at

https://oldweb.today/?browser=nm2-mac#19960101/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

(note you might need to hit <enter> in the URL input field for the page to display)

A screenshot of oldweb.today displaying the contents of the Mosaic homepage in Mosaic 2.

internetarchive

@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org replied · last week

Mosaic made the early web simple & exciting. Text, images, data, audio, & video all in one window. Suddenly, the internet was something anyone could explore. Traffic soared & the web began its rapid growth.

NCSA Mosaic for X Screenshot. Date 2013. Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0

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