Where does Mosaic fit in?
As I understand it, Marc Andreessen at NCSA was shown ViolaWWW by a colleague (David Thompson?) at NCSA. Marc downloaded Midas and tried it out. He and Eric Bina then wrote their own browser for unix from scratch. Later, several other folks at NCSA joined the team to port the idea to Mac and PC. As they did, Tom Bruce at Cornell was writing “Cello” for the PC which came out neck-and-neck with Mosaic on the PC. Marc and Eric did a number of very important things. They made a browser which was easy to install and use. They were the first one to get inline images working – to that point browsers had had varieties of fonts and colors, but pictures were displayed in separate windows. This made web pages much sexier. Most importantly, Marc followed up his and Eric’s coding with very fast 24hr customer support, really addressing what it took to make the app easy and natural to use, and trivial to install. Other apps had other things going for them.
As I understand it, Marc Andreessen at NCSA was shown ViolaWWW by a colleague (David Thompson?) at NCSA. Marc downloaded Midas and tried it out. He and Eric Bina then wrote their own browser for unix from scratch. Later, several other folks at NCSA joined the team to port the idea to Mac and PC. As they did, Tom Bruce at Cornell was writing “Cello” for the PC which came out neck-and-neck with Mosaic on the PC. Marc and Eric did a number of very important things. They made a browser which was easy to install and use. They were the first one to get inline images working – to that point browsers had had varieties of fonts and colors, but pictures were displayed in separate windows. This made web pages much sexier. Most importantly, Marc followed up his and Eric’s coding with very fast 24hr customer support, really addressing what it took to make the app easy and natural to use, and trivial to install. Other apps had other things going for them. Viola, for example, was more advanced in man
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