In 1993, the relatively new National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released Mosaic onto the World Wide Web as the first widely available browser.
On this date in #innovation history: the Mosaic browser is officially launched in 1993, the first browser for the world wide web that made possible display of graphics and images – launching the web as we now know it #tech @pmarca @NCSAatIllinois @Illinois_Alma pic.twitter.com/HtlLDAU9S3
— Adam Mossoff (@AdamMossoff) April 22, 2023
Developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, and helped along by a National Science Foundation grant, it remained in existence for just four years before Microsoft licensed it for the development of Internet Explorer. Andreeson went on to be one of the founders of Netscape.