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Webben förändrar Internet. 1993 lanserades webben eller World Wide Web (WWW) som det ursprungligen kallades på engelska efter den första webbläsaren som ingick i projektet från början.

Webben förändrar Internet. 1993 lanserades webben eller World Wide Web (WWW) som det ursprungligen kallades på engelska efter den första webbläsaren som ingick i projektet från början.

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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 🐸

Repórter Retro 103

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Repórter Retro 103

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Repórter Retro 103

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#ReprterRetro #acorn #ActionRetro #AmstradCpc #AppleII #AppleIIc #arm #AtariStfm #BASIC #Bendix #CCE #CelGenStudios #Clone #Commodore #Commodore64 #CommodorePC20 #EricMakrodt #FakeNews #falncia #famicom #FourPhaseSystems #GameBoy #IETF #internet #JesB #KariLawler #KIM1 #Kremvax #Livros #Macintosh #MquinasDeEscrever #MSXTopSecret #NavegadorWeb #NCSAMosaic #NES #Netscape #Nintendo #os2 #PhintageCollector #Python #RFC

Repórter Retro 103

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#ReprterRetro #acorn #ActionRetro #AmstradCpc #AppleII #AppleIIc #arm #AtariStfm #BASIC #Bendix #CCE #CelGenStudios #Clone #Commodore #Commodore64 #CommodorePC20 #EricMakrodt #FakeNews #falncia #famicom #FourPhaseSystems #GameBoy #IETF #internet #JesB #KariLawler #KIM1 #Kremvax #Livros #Macintosh #MquinasDeEscrever #MSXTopSecret #NavegadorWeb #NCSAMosaic #NES #Netscape #Nintendo #os2 #PhintageCollector #Python #RFC

Repórter Retro 103

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/05/29/reporter-retro-103/

#ReprterRetro #acorn #ActionRetro #AmstradCpc #AppleII #AppleIIc #arm #AtariStfm #BASIC #Bendix #CCE #CelGenStudios #Clone #Commodore #Commodore64 #CommodorePC20 #EricMakrodt #FakeNews #falncia #famicom #FourPhaseSystems #GameBoy #IETF #internet #JesB #KariLawler #KIM1 #Kremvax #Livros #Macintosh #MquinasDeEscrever #MSXTopSecret #NavegadorWeb #NCSAMosaic #NES #Netscape #Nintendo #os2 #PhintageCollector #Python #RFC

@feoh It was a pain, but unfortunately what my school had picked for their network. At this time we didn't have any kind of browser on the PCs, just the DOS telnet client to the student DEC5100 #Ultrix server where the wildest thing you could do was use #Gopher. Later some of the more rogue students experimented with running the #NCSAMosaic browser on the DEC and displaying it on the Windows 3.11 clients through X/Windows.

@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.