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1993 CE The late Cold War Technology

Mosaic Web Browser Released

Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina's Mosaic 1.0 for Unix shipped in January 1993; Windows ports followed that year.

Setting the scene

IMG tags let retailers paste logos without FTP gymnastics, changing HTML from physics preprints to catalogs.

What happened

Licensing fights between NCSA and commercial spinoffs foreshadowed open-core debates.

Why it still matters

Modems squealed while images loaded line-by-line for minutes. Memorable detail: the What's New page felt like a proto-RSS addiction.

Background

Mosaic alumni seeded Netscape, sparking the browser wars that dragged antitrust law into the dot-com era.

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