NCSA Mosaic browser

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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.

About NCSA Mosaic

Browser URL web.archive.org/web/19980223154120/ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/
Development Status Discontinued
The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
Launched 1993
Discontinued 1997
Operating Systems Unix-like, Windows, OS2, Misc Desktop OS
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