Whilst not the first Web Browser to appear, that honour goes to WorldWideWeb, Mosaic was the first web browser that I had experience with and could be loaded on to just about any of the UNIX workstations that were about in 1993.
I was lucky enough to work for a company that had had a wide-area (as we called it at the time) network connection between our UK and USA offices from the early 90’s and via that connection was able to follow what was going with the early versions of the World Wide Web and after finding a early copy of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet, we were able to delve much more deeply into this new ‘cyberspace‘.
How far we have come since then, with so many varied browsers now available and most of our lives dictated by the Web and all of its advantages!
Sadly, Mosaic will not longer be an active participant as its current owners AOL are ending the development and support of the current version 9 of the product.
It’s a sad end to what was for all early web users, the beginning of our web experience. You can still download that original version of Mosaic from here, if you want to see what all the early fuss was about.
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