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NCSA Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
NCSA Mosaic was a web browser that ran on Desktop devices. It was discontinued in 1997.
| Browser URL | web.archive.org/web/19980223154120/ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/ |
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| Development Status |
Discontinued The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
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| Launched | 1993 |
| Discontinued | 1997 |
| Operating Systems |
Unix-like,
Windows,
OS2,
Misc Desktop OS
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| Device platform | Desktop |
| Rendering Engine | Custom |
| License | Proprietary |
| Lightweight Browser | NCSA Mosaic omits some mainstream features in order to reduce system resource & memory usage. |
| Wikipedia Article | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_Mosaic |
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