Mosaic web browser - Mosaic web browser Mosaic is a web browser (client) for the World Wide Web by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Mosaic was described as "the killer application of the 1990s" because it was the first program to provide a slick multimedia graphical user interface to the Internet's burgeoning wealth of distributed information services (formerly mostly limited to FTP, Usenet and Gopher) at a time when access to the Internet was expanding rapidly outside its previous domain of academia and large industrial research institutions. NCSA Mosaic was originally designed and programmed for the X Window System by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. Version 1.0 was released on April 22, 1993, followed by two maintenance releases during summer 1993. Version 2.0 was released in.
Mosaic - Mosaic A small part of The Great Pavement at Woodchester, Gloucestershire, England. The 48 ft by 48 ft (15 m by 15 m) Roman mosaic uses 1.5 million 0.5 inch (12 mm) square pieces of stone. Once the floor of a Roman villa, it was laid around AD 325. A mosaic is a form of decorative art, in which small tiles or fragments of pottery (known as tesserae, diminutive tessellae) are used to create a pattern or picture. It was used in ancient times for domestic interior decoration. Mosaics are particularly associated with Roman dwellings, for example on floors; but the craft has continued through the ages, and many modern examples exist. M.C. Escher was influenced by Moorish mosaics to begin is investigations into tesselation. See.
James H. Clark - 68000. Soon, Silicon Graphics became the world leader in the production of Hollywood movie special effects and 3-D imaging. Silicon Graphics did not rely on high sales as they could charge more for their special high-end hardware and special graphics software. However, by the early 1990s, Jim Clark had a falling out with Silicon Graphics management and got the itch to start a completely new and different enterprise. In 1992, Clark and Mark Andreessen, the creator of the World Wide Web browser Mosaic, founded Netscape. The founding of Netscape was a pivotal point that helped launch the Internet IPO boom on Wall Street during the mid- to late 1990s, and Clark reaped the financial benefits of the Internet boom. Just as the Internet boom was about to completely bust, Clark got.
Internet Explorer - Explorer for Mac OS X 5.2.3 (Discontinued) Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a web browser from Microsoft, currently (as of 2003) in version 6.0 SP1 (version 5.2.3 for OS X and 5.1.7 for the classic Mac OS). Internet Explorer is a very popular web browser, for reasons that include the fact that it comes built into various versions of Microsoft Windows and used to be the default browser on the Mac OS before it was replaced by Apple's own Safari Web Browser. Internet Explorer was cited as an example of questionable product bundling in Microsoft's anti-trust case with the United States Department of Justice. Microsoft required many OEM computer manufacturers to include Internet Explorer in the copies of Windows they installed on systems they shipped, and would not allow.
History of the Internet - a important tool in developing the Internet (being used for communication between the groups working on internetworking research). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Motivation for the Internet 2 Early Internet Work 3 Growth 4 Commercialization and Privatization 5 Early applications 6 Standards and Control 7 World Wide Web 8 External Link Motivation for the Internet The need for an internetwork appeared with ARPA's sponsorship, by Robert Kahn, of the development of a number of innovative networking technologies; in particular, the first packet radio networks (inspired by the ALOHA network), and a satellite packet communication program. Later, local area networks (LAN's) would also join the mix. Connecting these disparate networking technologies was not possible with the kind of protocols used on the ARPANET, which depended on the exact nature of the subnetwork..
University of Illinois - is considered a part of UIC despite being on the UIUC campus. The Champaign-Urbana campus is the largest of the schools. It holds 18 schools, including a law, and aviation school. However, for those of us online, the most important facility of the institution is the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NCSA. This was where, amongst others, Marc Andreesen (later of Netscape fame) helped forge the Mosaic web browser, the first HTML browser capable of rendering images. In addition, in 1987, NCSA created NCSA telnet, a program which permitted users access to the supercomputer's resources remotely. Another campus is University of Illinois at Springfield.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - missions conference, Urbana, every three years. It is also the location of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which created the very first graphical Web browser, Mosaic..
Bookmark - with ease at some time in the future. From this usage come the modern Internet bookmarks. These Bookmarks are Pointers, primarily to URLs, built-in to the various Internet web browsers. Bookmarks have been incorporated into every browser since the Mosaic web browser, and are always stored on the software client. A folder metaphor is used for organization. Various shareware utilities and server-side web utilities have been developed to better manage bookmarks, yet none has gained widespread acceptance. The bookmarks within Internet Explorer (and therefore within Windows) are called Favorites. By virtue of the large proportion of people using Internet Explorer, the term Favorite has become virtually synonymous with bookmark in this respect..
CompuServe - and software companies offered customer support. This broadened the audience from primarily business users to the technical "geek" crowd, some of which migrated over from the Byte Magazine's Bix online service, but over time CompuServe also attracted a broad general public. During the early 1990s the hourly rate fell from over $10 an hour to $1.95 an hour. In April 1995, CompuServe topped three million members and launched its NetLauncher service, providing WWW access capability via the Spry Mosaic browser. AOL introduced a far cheaper flat rate, unlimited time, price plan in the US to compete with CompuServe's hourly charges and this combined with massive AOL advertising campaigns caused significant loss of customers until CompuServe responded with a similar plan of its own. In 1995 CompuServe set what privacy advocates argued.
Timeline of computing 1990-forward - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. The post was by a Finnish college student, Linus Torvalds, and this hobby grew from these humble beginnings into one of the most widely used Unix-like operating systems in the world today. It now runs on many different types of computer, including the Sun SPARC and the Compaq Alpha, as well as many ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and Motorola 68000 based computers. In 1992, the GNU project (www.gnu.org) adopted the Linux kernel for use on GNU systems while they waited for the development of their own (Hurd) kernel to be completed. The GNU project's aim is to provide a complete and free Unix like operating system, combining the Linux or Hurd platform.
NCSA - unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Work began in January 1986. NCSA projects: NCSA Telnet NCSA Mosaic web browser NCSA HTTPd.
NCSA HTTPd - NCSA HTTPd The NCSA HTTPd was a Web server originally developed at the NCSA by Marc Andreessen and others. It was the second web server developed, following Tim Berners-Lee's first web server developed at CERN. It was for some time the natural counterpart to the Mosaic web browser in the client-server World Wide Web. It also introduced the Common Gateway Interface, allowing for the creation of dynamic websites. Development of NCSA HTTPd was suspended in 1998, but the code lives on the Apache project, which now runs approximately two-thirds of Internet web servers. External Links The NCSA HTTPd homepage.
Netscape Communications Corporation - currently owned by Time Warner, and was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser. The company was founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. It released a web browser called "Mosaic Netscape 0.9" on October 13, 1994. This browser subsequently was renamed Netscape Navigator, which became part of the Netscape Communicator suite. The company had a successful IPO on August 9, 1995. In January 1998, facing strong competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it started the open source Mozilla project. In October 1998, Netscape acquired Newhoo for the sum of $1 million, renamed it the Open Directory Project, and released its database under an open content license. America Online on November 24, 1998 announced it would acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction.
Marc Andreessen - He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, an early web browser. External Links mini-bio Longer Bio inteview with the SF Gate This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
List of company name etymologies - - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ! Haier - Chinese 海尔 HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Hitachi - stands for "sunrise" in Japanese. Honda - from the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda Honeywell - from the name of Mark Honeywell founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co. It later merged with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company and.
List of computer term etymologies - had less to do with the functionality, and hence are of etymological value. This article lists such terms. For a list of the origins of names of computer companies see List of company name etymologies. Also see : etymology Apache - the web server from the Apache Software Foundation. It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache. B programming language - B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language. Bon programming language - Bon was created by Ken Thompson named after his wife Bonnie. C programming language - Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it New B. He later.
IBrowse web browser - IBrowse web browser IBrowse is a Web browser for the Amiga range of computers. IBrowse was originally developed for a company called Omnipresence, who now are no longer. The original author has since continued development of IBrowse. IBrowse supports HTML3.2, and some HTML4, Javascript, frames, SSL, and various other standards. IBrowse has been tipped to be included with the new 4.0 version of AmigaOS. See also: Web browser, AWeb, Voyager.
Epiphany web browser - Epiphany web browser Epiphany is a web browser for GNOME, a desktop environment for Unix-compatible operating systems. It is based on Gecko and eliminates XUL-based interfaces for an interface native to the operating system. The latest stable version is 1.0.6..
AWeb web browser - AWeb web browser AWeb is a Web browser for the Amiga range of computers. Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3.9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source. AWeb supports HTML3.2, and some 4.1, Javascript, frames, SSL, and various other Netscape and IE features. See also: Web browser, IBrowse, Voyager.
Cello web browser - Cello web browser Cello was an early web browser and Gopher client for Windows 3.1. It was developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and publicly released on June 8, 1993. The last edition was version 1.01a, released on April 9, 1994. Cello was created because most lawyers used Microsoft Windows on their computers, but web browsers available at the time were mostly for Unix operating systems. This meant many legal experts were unable to access legal information made available in hypertext on the world wide web..
