Mosaic

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Mosaic is a pioneering early web browser that popularized the World Wide Web by introducing a user-friendly graphical interface for browsing internet content.

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Mosaic canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf graphical web browser
software application
web browser
basedOn World Wide Web protocols
countryOfOrigin United States
creator Eric Bina
Marc Andreessen
describedAs pioneering early web browser
developer NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
developerTeamMember Eric Bina
Marc Andreessen
discontinuationDate 1997
discontinued true
distributionMethod download over the Internet
firstReleaseDate 1993-01-23
genre web browser
hasVersion NCSA Mosaic for Macintosh
NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows
NCSA Mosaic for X
impact helped drive rapid growth in web usage in the mid-1990s
inception 1992
influenced Microsoft Internet Explorer
linked to: Internet Explorer

Netscape Navigator
later graphical web browsers
license proprietary software license
notableFor introducing a user-friendly graphical interface for web browsing
popularizing the World Wide Web
supporting inline images in web pages
operatedOn early 1990s Internet
operatingSystem Mac OS
linked to: macOS

Microsoft Windows
linked to: Windows

Unix
platform Classic Mac OS
Microsoft Windows
linked to: Windows

X Window System
linked to: X11
predecessor line-mode web browsers
programmingLanguage C
supports forms (in later versions)
hyperlinks
inline images in HTML documents
supportsProtocol FTP
Gopher
HTTP
NNTP
WAIS
targetAudience general computer users
userInterface graphical user interface

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Nexus influenced Mosaic
Mosaic 2 statusFamily Mosaic
Mosaic 3 statusFamily Mosaic
311 notableWork Mosaic