Word: ncsa
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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...
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...
...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 with Mosaic has exploded, from a few dozen a year ago to more than 10,000 today. You can find everything on the Web from Hubble...
...teams that participated in the competition included Division I and Division II schools from the EISA as well as a handful of schools from the National Collegiate Skiing Association (NCSA), including Massachussetts, Boston College and Ply-mouth State College...