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Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

@paul @moses_izumi @joel

Heh, "early internet feels" for me would be #NCSA Mosaic and/or accessing the web through telnet on DOS and a 1200-baud modem. XD

Heh, oops!
I was starting to think one of the MSDOS programs I use had broken somehow... Turns out it was wattcp.cfg had become outdated.😞

This summer, for the first time in 15+ years, the default state of my main server has been "off" rather than "on" and it can't be my local nameserver if it's off!

Humm, NCSA telnet is probably broken too, and I wouldn't notice because all my local hosts are specified in it's config file...

#WatTCP #NCSA #DOS #RetroComputing

Anyone has screenshot of NCSA Mosaic running on windows, MacOS 7 and on say Dec Alpha?

#web #mosaic #ncsa

(8/14)
- #Europe: suppression des frontières fiscales + #Cern UK/Belgique : Tim #BernersLee + Robert #Cailliau (cf 1989 1990 1994) -> lancement 1er navigateur #NCSA Mosaïque intégrant des images dans une page #web + publication du code source du Web = technologie gratuite accessible pour tous (cf 1994 marchandisation Gafam USA).

"Beaucoup de gens travaillent sur ces questions dans le monde, mais ils ne ...

#year1993 #climat #climate #anthropocene #climatechange #climatecrisis

Netscape founding dirt: 1994 complications involving MCOM, University of Illinois, and Mosaic code that may have ended up in Netscape
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19971005/2564359/profit-without-honor
#netscape #history #mozilla #pmarca #legal #uiuc #ncsa #+

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has launched DeltaAI, an advanced AI computing and data resource
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/NCSA-Launches-DeltaAI-Advanced-Computing-System
#DeltaAI #NCSA #HPC #supercomputing #data #MachineLearning

Today you might laugh at the notion of paying for a web browser (or any other software, you freeloader 😒). But this was part of #Netscape’s business model at first. #Microsoft killed them later by bundling #InternetExplorer with their market-leading #Windows operating system.

#MSIE wasn’t even Microsoft code at first; it was just a badge-engineered licensed version of Spyglass Mosaic. Spyglass was created to commercialize #NCSA Mosaic, the first popular graphical web browser.

Thank you to all the presenters this weekend at #NCSA ! What a great #sociology #conference !

It would be amazing to see some of these presentations in print in a peer-reviewed journal such as ours. Let us know if you’d like help with the process.

Happy 31st Anniversary of the First Public Release of NCSA X/Mosaic (v0.5).

Sadly, I could not find an actual screenshot of v0.5, so this one of v1.2 from wikipedia will have to do.

I worked on X/Mosaic (v2.6+) at NCSA SDG as a "student programmer" back in '95-'96, after the Netscape Exodus but while Mosaic was still under active development. It was a good learning experience and a way to earn $10/hr in an on-campus job as a Computer Engineering undergrad.

#XMosaic #Mosaic #NCSA #WebHistory

@timb_machine Think back to a dial-up #ISP with many users on the same #Unix box, running Rob McCool's #NCSA #HTTPd as a standalone daemon on a separate low-privilege account.

There was a small list of #SysAdmin-trusted users that could place #CGI scripts into a single shared directory in the ServerRoot directory, so technically we could have used 755 for the permissions. But everyone was naïve so we were just advised to use 777.

I've learned a bit since then.

@negative12dollarbill @Npazo @ovid @miyagawa Yes, mod_perl was first released in 1996, and people have been writing #Perl #CGI scripts almost since the interface was invented as a part of the #NCSA httpd that begat #Apache (in Perl 4, natch: https://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu/doc/form.html)

@henrihelvetica We supported a number of UNIX variants, and this was back in the day when vendor C compilers were still commonly used, etc, so everyone on the team used a different brand of workstation -- mine was a DEC 3000 AXP running OSF/1, then later a PC running BSD/386.

I've got a handful of postage-stamp sized pictures from back then...

#XMosaic #NCSA #UIUC

#Medusa has listed Native Counselling Services of Alberta (#NCSA) and Beaver Lake Cree Nation. #ransomware

Spyware Targeting Signal and Telegram Users Linked to China: Beware of Malicious Android Apps

Researchers find China-Linked Spyware in Android Apps for Signal and Telegram

Security experts have found harmful apps on the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store that aim to install the BadBazaar spyware on Android phones used for Signal and Telegram.

#MaliciousAndroidApps #AndroidApps #Android #MalwareAlert #Malware #MalwareAttack #CloudSecurity #ThreatIntelligence #ACCESSYSTEM #NCSC #NCSA

Cyber Security Updates
An impactful security vulnerability has been uncovered within Python's URL parsing function. This flaw has the potential to be exploited, allowing attackers to circumvent domain or protocol filtering mechanisms established through blocklists. As a result, this could lead to unauthorized file access and even the execution of arbitrary commands.

#HighSeveritySecurity #Python #PythonURL #Cybersecurity #CyberThreats #ACCESSYSTEM #UAE #India #Qatar #Dubai #Doha #NCSC #NCSA

Cyber Security Updates
TunnelCrack attack may cause vulnerable VPNs to leak Traffic
In a recent demonstration, a set of methods referred to as TunnelCrack exhibited the potential for eavesdroppers to compel the network traffic of targets to bypass their secure VPNs, under specific conditions.

Contact Sales : [email protected]

#VPN #VPNTunnel #TunnelCrack #Cybersecurity #CyberThreats #ACCESSYSTEM #UAE #India #Qatar #Dubai #Doha #ITSales #Sales #NCSC #NCSA

@aral The salient point is that although both companies’ #browsers did not appreciably derive actual mechanisms (code) from #NCSA, they would not exist without #NCSAMosaic’s initial research, design, and refinement.

So both @kpeace and @keithzg are correct depending on one’s perspective.

@kpeace @keithzg @aral Yes, but no.

Both companies’ web #browsers trace their origins to #Mosaic by The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (#NCSA).

#Netscape Navigator was a rewrite of #NCSAMosaic by its co-creators.

#Microsoft #InternetExplorer was based on code licensed from Spyglass, a #Mosaic trademark and technology licensee who had supposedly only used the original code sparingly.

Before #NCSA #Mosaic, #Netscape and all modern browser nonsense, there was #Erwise browser. Erwise was released in April 1992 and it was a thesis project from 4 Helsinki University of Technology (now called #aaltouniversity) students. The project stalled when the people behind it graduated and moved to new things, and no funding for continuing the project was found.

Apparently there was some external interest to continue the project, but all documentation being in Finnish stymied such attempts. Some estimates suggest that this delayed development of world wide web by about a year. #www #earlydays

Ok got the #Tandy1000 set up on my desk, all hooked up.

Setting up packet driver networking... tweeking #NCSA telnet's keymap to work with the #Tandy keyboard....

Sure I've done this before, I could restore an old backup, but where's the fun in that?

@petersuber I vividly remember the early days of the web when it was unclear whether it would matter to average people compared to walled-garden services like #AOL (then #AmericaOnline), #Prodigy, or #CompuServe.

IMHO the web’s early rise depended on two other factors:
• Graphical #browsers like #NCSA #Mosaic on mainstream computer operating systems (1993)
• Decommissioning of the US government-funded #NSFNET backbone, effectively ending restrictions on commercial Internet traffic (1995)

Found some old pictures of the Toyota Celica I owned back in college in the mid-90s. Parked outside of OCB (the Oil Chemistry Building -- home of NCSA SDG and Mosaic -- no actual chemistry occurred there during my time) with my "LINUX 95" Illinois plates.

Loved that car. It was falling apart but it was fun to drive.

#celica #uiuc #ncsa #linux

Found some old pictures of the Toyota Celica I owned back in college in the mid-90s. Parked outside of OCB (the Oil Chemistry Building -- home of NCSA SDG and Mosaic -- no actual chemistry occurred there during my time) with my "LINUX 95" Illinois plates.

Loved that car. It was falling apart but it was fun to drive.

#celica #uiuc #ncsa #linux

Found some old pictures of the Toyota Celica I owned back in college in the mid-90s. Parked outside of OCB (the Oil Chemistry Building -- home of NCSA SDG and Mosaic -- no actual chemistry occurred there during my time) with my "LINUX 95" Illinois plates.

Loved that car. It was falling apart but it was fun to drive.

#celica #uiuc #ncsa #linux

Found some old pictures of the Toyota Celica I owned back in college in the mid-90s. Parked outside of OCB (the Oil Chemistry Building -- home of NCSA SDG and Mosaic -- no actual chemistry occurred there during my time) with my "LINUX 95" Illinois plates.

Loved that car. It was falling apart but it was fun to drive.

#celica #uiuc #ncsa #linux

From the "Around this day 20 years ago" - Fully populated Forece10 e1200 chassis in the core of an HPC system from when I worked at NCSA.
These boxes were very ahead of their time, we were a really early customer, so much that we worked with them on features. Not much of anything had the density these things had. I recall one particular upgrade (moving from vxworks to NetBSD on the line cards) took upwards of 25 minutes. Nothing beat the cable tray, though

#hpc #ncsa #supercomputing #force10

From the "Around this day 20 years ago" - Fully populated Forece10 e1200 chassis in the core of an HPC system from when I worked at NCSA.
These boxes were very ahead of their time, we were a really early customer, so much that we worked with them on features. Not much of anything had the density these things had. I recall one particular upgrade (moving from vxworks to NetBSD on the line cards) took upwards of 25 minutes. Nothing beat the cable tray, though

#hpc #ncsa #supercomputing #force10

From the "Around this day 20 years ago" - Fully populated Forece10 e1200 chassis in the core of an HPC system from when I worked at NCSA.
These boxes were very ahead of their time, we were a really early customer, so much that we worked with them on features. Not much of anything had the density these things had. I recall one particular upgrade (moving from vxworks to NetBSD on the line cards) took upwards of 25 minutes. Nothing beat the cable tray, though

#hpc #ncsa #supercomputing #force10

From the "Around this day 20 years ago" - Fully populated Forece10 e1200 chassis in the core of an HPC system from when I worked at NCSA.
These boxes were very ahead of their time, we were a really early customer, so much that we worked with them on features. Not much of anything had the density these things had. I recall one particular upgrade (moving from vxworks to NetBSD on the line cards) took upwards of 25 minutes. Nothing beat the cable tray, though

#hpc #ncsa #supercomputing #force10

From the "Around this day 20 years ago" - Fully populated Forece10 e1200 chassis in the core of an HPC system from when I worked at NCSA.
These boxes were very ahead of their time, we were a really early customer, so much that we worked with them on features. Not much of anything had the density these things had. I recall one particular upgrade (moving from vxworks to NetBSD on the line cards) took upwards of 25 minutes. Nothing beat the cable tray, though

#hpc #ncsa #supercomputing #force10

TIL there were commits to the #NCSA #Mosaic repo last year. Also that there is a Mosaic repo in Github. Also that people are hacking on it again. https://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic

History: NCSA Mosaic was the first popular graphical web browser, and is the ancestor to both Firefox and IE Its devs left NCSA to found #Netscape (a from-scratch reimplementation), which became #Firefox. Meanwhile, NCSA licensed Mosaic to #Spyglass, which Microsoft licensed to form the first #InternetExplorer. Whew.