Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most popular of the "browsers" is NCSA Mosaic, produced by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois...
...Macintosh users, Mosaic is included in the network software package which Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) provides to students who connect to the network from their rooms. Windows users must obtain the software themselves. The Windows version requires special network software not yet officially supported by HASCS, so students who want to use it should consult computer experts...
...privacy-rights absolutists -- have been horrified to learn that thesoftware that guides them through the Internetcould pose huge Orwellian problems. Over the last week or so, a growing number of heads-up E-mail dispatches have warned that some "browsers," including free and commercial copycats of the popular Mosaic program, quietly supply the Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that has an ad, and in a little bit of time, the manufacturer can start...
Attempting to head off a fight over who?ll provide the path to the Internet, the creators of Netscape, commercial software written for easy navigation of the Net, will officially change their company's name from Mosaic Communications Corp. to Netscape Communications Corp. The organization's founders were among the people at the University of Illinois who wrote Mosaic, a similar program distributed without charge that is used to browse the Net's World Wide Web. Conflict arose when Spyglass, a third group that wrote similar software named Spyglass Mosaic, licensed the name "Mosaic." TIME technology writer Philip Elmer-Dewitt guesses...
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...