RESOUR> [WWWEDU] Mosaic web browser celebrates 10th birthday

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:00:00 -0500
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 08:01:04 -0400
Subject: [WWWEDU] Mosaic web browser celebrates 10th birthday

Mosaic Web Browser Celebrates 10th Birthday

NSF-supported supercomputer center gave birth to software that spurred the
development of the modern Web

ARLINGTON, Va.: Ten years ago, the world's first freely available Web
browser to allow Web pages to include both graphics and text was developed
by students and staff working at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
-supported National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of the
Mosaic Web browser, NCSA is holding a panel discussion April 29 to explore
the future of computing and networking with five of the nation's leading
technologists. Panelists include Dan Reed, director of NCSA; Ray Ozzie,
founder of Groove Networks; Vinton Cerf, senior vice president of
Architecture and Technology for WorldCom; Rick Rashid, senior vice
president for research at Microsoft Research; and David Kuck, an Intel
Fellow for the Enterprise Platforms Group and director of the KAI Software
Lab at Intel. The 7-9 p.m. (Central) event will be webcast at
http://realvideo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/asxfiles/MosaicAnniversary.asx.

Mosaic spurred a revolution in communications, business, education, and
entertainment that has had a trillion-dollar impact on the global economy.
Mosaic, the progenitor of modern browsers such as Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Netscape, emerged at NCSA through research funded by NSF's
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate.

"Without Mosaic, Web browsers might not have happened or be what they are
today," said Peter Freeman, NSF assistant director for CISE. "The growth of
the Web and its impact on daily life shows the kind of dramatic payoff that
NSF investments in computer science research can have for all areas of
science and engineering, education and society as a whole."

The history of NSF's supercomputing centers, established in 1985,
overlapped greatly with the worldwide rise of the Internet and personal
computers. It was, therefore, not surprising that software developers
focused on creating easy-to-use Internet tools for desktop machines. The
NSF centers developed many tools for organizing, locating and navigating
through information, including NCSA httpd, one of the first widely used Web
server applications. But perhaps the most spectacular success was NCSA
Mosaic, which in less than 18 months after its introduction became the
Internet "browser of choice" for more than a million users and set off an
exponential growth in the number of Web servers as well as Web surfers.

Marc Andreessen, who would later help found Netscape Communications, was a
member of the team that developed Mosaic, a graphical browser that allowed
programmers to post images, sound, video clips, and multi-font text within
the Web's hypertext system. In 1994, NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA
specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support.

NSF, through the Supercomputer Centers program, NSFnet, and many other
activities over the years, has continued to expand the promise of Mosaic.
Today, NSF is devising strategies and plans to develop and deploy an
advanced cyberinfrastructure?a state-of-the-art computing, information and
networking infrastructure that will revolutionize the conduct of science
and engineering research and education the same way Mosaic and the Internet
have revolutionized how people communicate, shop, and stay informed.

For more information on the NCSA symposium on "The Future Frontier:
Computing on NCSA Mosaic's 10th Anniversary," see
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/PublicAffairs/MosaicEvent/. NCSA also
maintains a collection of pages on the history of Mosaic, including
downloads of the software, at
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/PublicAffairs/MosaicHistory/.
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