Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Getting connected to the Web requires an active HSDN data jack, a network-capable Macintosh or Microsoft Windows-compatible computer and "browser" software to navigate the Web's hypertext pages...
Mosaic is not the only Web browser, but it is one of the most popular...
...company recently changed its name to Netscape Communications Corp., and its Web browser, Netscape, is considered by some to be superior to NCSA Mosaic. In particular, Netscape displays graphics as they are being downloaded, as opposed to Mosaic, which forces the user to wait until the download is complete...
Young, hip Mosaic Communications was supposed to have the edge in the race to improve on NCSA Mosaic -- the Internet "browser" that made the complex computer network surprisingly easy to use. After all, the Silicon Valley start-up hired away most of the hackers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who had written the original program, and their new version -- Mosaic Netscape -- is suddenly the hottest thing on the Net. So why are AT& T, IBM and Digital Equipment licensing a competing version from low-profile Spyglass? Because Spyglass has something Mosaic never bothered to get -- a license...
...lately has seemed more accessible to ordinary mortals, it is largely the result of two inventions: the first is the World Wide Web, an organizing system within the Internet that makes it easy to establish links between computers around the world; the second is a program called Mosaic, a "browser" that presents the information in the Web in the point-and-click format so familiar to Macintosh and Windows users...