NCSA Mosaic is a discontinued web browser, and one of the first to be widely available. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and … See more

The licensing terms for NCSA Mosaic were generous for a proprietary software program. In general, non-commercial use was free of charge … See more

Mosaic led to the Internet boom of the 1990s. Other browsers existed during this period, such as Erwise, ViolaWWW, MidasWWW See more

• History of the World Wide Web
• History of the web browser
• Comparison of web browsers See more

In December 1991, the Gore Bill was passed, which provided funding for new projects at the NCSA, where after trying ViolaWWW See more

Robert Reid notes that Andreessen's team hoped:
... to rectify many of the shortcomings of the very primitive prototypes then floating around the Internet. … See more

Netscape Navigator was later developed by Netscape, which employed many of the original Mosaic authors; however, it intentionally shared … See more