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Mosaic was an early Web browser, released in 1993, it is
credited with helping to expand the popularity and use of
the World Wide Web. Mosaic was originally created to be used
on the Unix operating system, with the original source code
having been developed by two men, Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen.
As has already been stated, Mosaic was first released on
the Unix operating system, on April the 22nd, 1993. In the
later half of 1993, versions of Mosaic were released for the
Commodore Amiga, Windows and the Apple Macintosh.
Mosaic had a short reign as the leading Web browser, by 1995
the team which had developed Mosaic left to design the Netscape
Navigator Web browser. The Mosaic code was licensed and later
purchased by Microsoft, who developed Internet Explorer with
it. Versions of Internet Explorer, up to version 6.0, were
in some part based upon Mosaic source code.
Although the Mosaic Web browser is sometimes wrongly credited
with being the first Web browser, it may be fair to say it
was the first modern Web browser. As the below screenshot
shows, the structure of the Mosaic Web browser does not differ
greatly from present day browsers, such as Internet Explorer
and Mozilla's Firefox.
Although the Mosaic browser has long since been discontinued,
as of 2011, you can still download it at the following address,
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/
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