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...Mosaic is both the road map and the steering wheel," says Marc Andreessen, the 23-year-old programmer who co-authored the original version of Mosaic while an undergraduate working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Because the program was developed with government money, the students gave it away free. It soon spread through the network like a virus. A million copies were downloaded from the NCSA computer system in the first year. Another million were distributed in the next six months. Meanwhile, the number of Web "sites" you can visit...