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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Browsers -- the good old days

It's almost 10 years since the Web browser came to public view with the first version of NCSA Mosaic, and USA Today has taken the opportunity to refresh old timers' memories, and enlighten the youngsters. It's a fascinating story, and made Marc Andreessen a media star. Mosaic changed the Web, compared with Tim Berners-Lee's original browser, because it left out the page creation aspect and introduced graphics, making it more of a one way and less of a two-way medium. One story that is new to me: "At a conference, Berners-Lee yelled at Andreessen, telling him that adding images to the Web was going to bring in a flood of new users who would do things like post photos of nude women."

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