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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Label Occurrences
Mosaic canonical 4

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf graphical web browser
software application
web browser
basedOn World Wide Web protocols
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Eric Bina
Marc Andreessen
describedAs pioneering early web browser
developer National Center for Supercomputing Applications
surface form: 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 Mosaic (web browser)
surface form: NCSA Mosaic for Macintosh

Mosaic (web browser)
surface form: NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows

Mosaic (web browser)
surface form: NCSA Mosaic for X
impact helped drive rapid growth in web usage in the mid-1990s
inception 1992
influenced Internet Explorer
surface form: Microsoft 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 macOS
surface form: Mac OS

Windows
surface form: Microsoft Windows

Unix
platform Classic Mac OS
Windows
surface form: Microsoft Windows

X11
surface form: X Window System
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