How Mosaic triggered a revolution
On April 22, 1993, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a piece of computer code designed to get information from various public networks.
Little did they know that their pet project, a humble application named Mosaic, would fundamentally change everyday life. While Web browsers with graphical interfaces had traded hands among academics years earlier, Mosaic was the first to be widely adopted and introduce the masses to the Internet...more [CNET]
To think that ten years ago we started on the path to the greatest tulip craze since, well...the original one. What was once a creator of diversity would be come the center of the monopoly wars with Microsoft, make many billions of dollars in wealth and ruin even more lives when the bubble collapsed.
It also gave access to information that had never been so easily accessed. The very way that we present, and live our lives has been impacted both directly, and indirectly. I wonder how we will look at it 20 years down the road?...mj
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