A report on Mosaic (web browser) and WorldWideWeb

NCSA Mosaic 2.7 for Unix
WorldWideWeb, c. undefined 1994
Mosaic 1.0 running under System 7.1, displaying the Mosaic Communications Corporation (later Netscape) website.
WorldWideWeb, c. undefined 1994

It is often described as the first graphical web browser, though it was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise, and ViolaWWW.

- Mosaic (web browser)

They were all eclipsed by Mosaic in terms of popularity, which by 1993 had replaced the WorldWideWeb program.

- WorldWideWeb
NCSA Mosaic 2.7 for Unix

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The historic World Wide Web logo, designed by Robert Cailliau.

World Wide Web

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Information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.

Information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.

The historic World Wide Web logo, designed by Robert Cailliau.
A web page displayed in a web browser
A global map of the Web Index for countries in 2014
This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.
The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images (GIFs).
Graphic representation of a minute fraction of the WWW, demonstrating hyperlinks
A screenshot of a web page on Wikimedia Commons
Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)
The usap.gov website
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge web server, a computer designed for rack mounting
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website; here, Dell servers are installed together to be used for the Wikimedia Foundation.
The results of a search for the term "lunar eclipse" in a web-based image search engine

In 1990, he developed the foundations for the Web: HTTP, HTML, the WorldWideWeb browser, a server, and the first website in order to manage documentation.

After the NCSA released Mosaic later that year, the Web became very popular with thousands of websites springing up in less than a year.

Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content

Web browser

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Application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.

Application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.

Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content
Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992
Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007

The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

1993 was a landmark year with the release of Mosaic, credited as "the world's first popular browser".

Libwww

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Modular client-side web API for Unix and Windows.

Modular client-side web API for Unix and Windows.

In 1991 and 1992, Tim Berners-Lee and a student at CERN named Jean-François Groff rewrote various components of the original WorldWideWeb browser for the NeXTstep operating system in portable C code, in order to demonstrate the potential of the World Wide Web.

Mosaic