Editing NCSA Mosaic (section)

== History ==
[[File:NCSAMosaic1.0Mac.png|thumb|left|Mosaic 1.0 running under [[System 7]].1, displaying the Mosaic Communications Corporation (later [[Netscape]]) website]]
In 1991, the [[High Performance Computing Act of 1991]] was passed, which provided funding for new projects at the NCSA, where after trying [[ViolaWWW]], [[David Thompson (engineer)|David Thompson]] demonstrated it to the NCSA software design group.<ref name="timbl">{{cite web|last=Berners-Lee|first=Tim|title=A Brief History of the Web|url=http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TimBook-old/History.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=16 August 2010}}</ref> This inspired [[Marc Andreessen]] and [[Eric Bina]] – two programmers working at NCSA – to create Mosaic. Andreessen and Bina began developing Mosaic in February 1991 for Unix's [[X Window System]], calling it ''xmosaic''.<ref name="faq" /><ref name="mosaic and th w3" /><ref name="timbl" /><ref name="Andreessen+Bina_1994">{{Cite journal|last1=Andreessen|first1=Marc|last2=Bina|first2=Eric|title=NCSA Mosaic: A Global Hypermedia System|journal=Internet Research|volume=4|issue=1|pages=7–17|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing Limited|location=Bingley, UK|year=1994|issn=1066-2243|doi=10.1108/10662249410798803}}</ref>  Marc Andreessen announced the project's first release, the "alpha/beta version 0.5," on January 23, 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0099.html|title=NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released|access-date=2013-07-06}}</ref> Version 1.0 was released on April 21, 1993.<ref name="wiredMosaic">{{Cite web |last=Andreessen |first=Marc |date=21 April 1993 |title=NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released |url=http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0128.html |access-date=30 August 2023 |website=The World Wide Web History Project}}</ref> Ports to Microsoft Windows and [[Classic Mac OS|Macintosh]] were released in September.<ref name="timbl" /> A [[AMosaic|port of Mosaic]] to the [[Amiga]] was available by October 1993. NCSA Mosaic for Unix (X Window System) version 2.0 was released on November 10, 1993<ref>{{cite web |title=NCSA Mosaic for X 2.0 available |url=http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0447.html |access-date=2013-07-06}}</ref> and was notable for adding support for [[HTML form|forms]], thus enabling the creation of the first [[dynamic web page]]s. From 1994 to 1997, the [[National Science Foundation]] supported the further development of Mosaic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100274|title=Mosaic Launches an Internet Revolution|website=www.nsf.gov|date=8 April 2004 }}</ref>

Marc Andreessen, the leader of the team that developed Mosaic, left NCSA and, with [[James H. Clark]], one of the founders of [[Silicon Graphics, Inc.]] (SGI), and four other former students and staff of the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]], started Mosaic Communications Corporation. Mosaic Communications eventually became [[Netscape Communications Corporation]], producing [[Netscape Navigator]]. Mosaic's popularity as a separate browser began to decrease after the 1994 release of [[Netscape Navigator]], the relevance of which was noted in ''The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML'': "Netscape Communications has designed an all-new WWW browser Netscape, that has significant enhancements over the original Mosaic program."<ref name="The HTML Sourcebook"/>{{rp|332}}

In 1994, [[Santa Cruz Operation|SCO]] released Global Access, a modified version of [[SCO OpenServer|SCO's Open Desktop Unix]], which became the first commercial product to incorporate Mosaic.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=InfoWorld |title=SCO brings Internet access to PCs |first=Scott |last=Mace |date=7 March 1994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47 |page=47}}</ref> However, by 1998, the Mosaic user base had almost completely evaporated as users moved to other web browsers.