#MOSAIC WEB BROWSER SOFTWARE#

There were several web browsers available then, but they were for Unix machines which were rather expensive. Clark believed the Mosaic browser had great commercial possibilities and suggested starting an Internet software company. AMosaic was a port to the Amiga of the Mosaic web browser, developed beginning in 1993, 1 and was the first graphical web browser for the Amiga. 8 It is often described as the first graphical web browser, though it was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise, 9 and ViolaWWW. Andreessen had worked on the project while he was with the National Center for Supercomputing. Mosaic is the first browser to display images inline with text instead of in a separate window. His position at NCSA allowed him to become quite familiar with the Internet and World Wide Web, that began to take off. Mosaic was the name of a software that allowed users to access different content on the web. “NCSA Mosaic was neither the first web browser (first was the WorldWideWeb of Berners-Lee) nor the first graphical web browser (it was preceded by the lesser-known Erwise and ViolaIn 1992 Marc Andreesen was a student in Computer Science and part-time assistant at the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) at the University of Illinois. April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color, Creativity 1993: NCSA Mosaic 1. “NCSA Mosaic of Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina” Students Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the University of Illinois programmed one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface. I came across and an interesting video of the development of the Mosaic browser that popularized the use of the web and the first browser used at LaJolla Bank. The Mosaic browser development was led by Dr, Larry Smarr NCSA Director at University of Illinois in early 1990s when he oversaw the Mosaic Browser built by Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina. The transition from Gopher ASCII data dumps to Mosaic inspired the virtual branch strategy of BofI. Marc Andreessen and his team invented Mosaic (original NCSA page), the first popular Web browser, which greatly helped spread use and knowledge of the web. I remember my excitement when I first saw web pages using the Mosaic browser that was released in 1993. The Bank of Internet (BofI NASDAQ) Story began in 1993 when I was President of La Jolla Bank.