Word: mosaic
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...Internet 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...
What the computer user sees when he fires up Mosaic is a document that looks something like a magazine page. It has nicely formatted text. It has bulleted lists of places and things. It has icons and images. But it also has, hidden within those words and images, links to other locations on the Internet. Certain words on the page are highlighted in blue. When the user clicks on blue words, the program reaches across the Internet, grabs the next page of information -- wherever it happens to be -- and displays it on the screen. Click on the words "World Wide...
...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...
Witnesses in the O.J. Simpson hearing began piecing together a mosaic of the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered. Much of the drama today came from details provided by a Simpson houseguest, who failed to corroborate O.J.'s assertion that he was at home when the victims were attacked. He did describe a bizarre pounding he heard that shook his room like an "earthquake." The limousine driver who tookSimpson to the airport related how he waited more than 10 minutes for his passenger, during which time he saw an African American male "walking pretty fast" go into...
Kirstein never lacked for accomplished or famous people in his near vicinity; Mosaic records the steady patter of dropping names, starting with his father's lawyer (Louis D. Brandeis) and running through most of Bloomsbury ("Maynard Keynes guided me to a show of Cezanne's water-colors at the Leicester Galleries") and a Who's Who of 20th century artists, writers and performers. This recitation seems forgivable. Kirstein recognizes that some of these big names were "glad enough to suffer rich idiots like myself," but he genuinely knew, learned from and helped many of the others. His own youthful dreams...