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Mosaic's birthday: 25 years of the modern web (zdnet.com)
2 points by middle1 on Jan 24, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


It did a good job of handling the details, even for a nitpicker like me. (Eg, careful to say that there were web browsers before Mosaic, including graphical ones).

I will nit-pick this part:

> Andreessen and Bina quickly realized they could make a mint from Mosaic. They took the Mosaic code. In October 1994, they turned it into the first successful commercial web browser: Netscape Navigator.

As I recall, NN is not based on the Mosaic code, though I believe Netscape did license the Mosaic code. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) :

> Netscape Navigator was later developed by Netscape (originally known as Mosaic Communications Corporation), which employed many of the original Mosaic authors; however, it intentionally shared no code with Mosaic.




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