LibGuides: Natural and Applied Sciences Archives: Mosaic Web Browser

Instructions on "How to Download and Run NCSA Mosaic" from the NCSA Mosaic program files, found in record series 7/5/12.

About the Mosaic Web Browser

NCSA's (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Mosaic was one of the first web browsers. Created by Marc L. Andreessen and Eric J. Bina and released in November 1993, Mosaic "gave Internet users easy access to multimedia sources of information."

The Mosaic Program Files can be found in Record Series 7/5/12.

Mosaic Web Browser Archival Holdings

Administrative Records

Trustees' Reports, 1867- (Record Series 1/1/802): See 1994-1996 Report regarding Netscape litigation, p. 615.
Stanley O. Ikenberry General Correspondence, 1979-2000 (Record Series 2/14/1): See Box 324: Mosaic, 1994-95.
Vice Chancellor for Research Subject File, 1962-2010 (Record Series 24/15/1): See Box 12: NCSA - Chicago Mosaic, 1995-96; NCSA/MOSAIC, 1991-96; NCSA - Netscape Agreement + PR.
Faculty and Staff Press Release File, 1951- (Record Series 39/1/11): Box 2: File on Marc Andressen. Contains clippings, including articles from The Economist and The Washington Post and issues of Business Week (1997) and Wired (2000).
Alumni and Faculty Biographical File, 1882-1995 (Record Series 26/4/1): See biographical file for Marc Andreessen.
Illio, 1895- (Record Series 41/8/805): See digitized photo of Eric Bina (1986), one of the developers of Mosaic and Netscape.

College and Departmental Archives

Mosaic Program Files (Record Series 7/5/12): Contains original program files from Mosaic web browser developed by the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA).
NCSA Subject File (Record Series 7/5/1): See Box 29: Netscape Alliance 8/22/99.
NCSA Administrative Subject File (Record Series 7/5/2): See Box 2: Randi Londer Article for NSF Magazine Mosaic, 29 Jan. 1985; Warren Kornberg Letter, 1989.
NCSA Conferences and Meetings Agendas, Minutes, and Itineraries Files, 1982-2001 (Record Series 7/5/9): See Box 17: 17-20 Oct. 1994 - The 2nd International World Wide Web Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web; 5-6 Jan. 1995 - Mosaic Demo to Chicago Mayor; 10 Apr. 1995 - Mayor's Cabinet Demo of "Chicago Mosaic"; May 1995 - Spyglass and Enhanced Mosaic Partners Conference.
NCSA Clippings File, 1978-2000 (Record Series 7/5/10):
- See Box 2: "InfoSeek brings a search tool to Mosaic users," Internet Business World (Aug. 1994); "Jim Clark's Mosaic version offered free over Internet," High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Week (20 Oct. 1994); "Head to head with NCSA: Mosaic communication releases a freebie of its own," Internet Business Report (Nov. 1994); "IBM looks to Net; targets Netscape," Internet Business Report (Jul. 1995); "Marc Andreessen: George Glider thinks this kid can topple Bill Gates," Forbes (28 Aug. 1995); "Spinning a golden web: Marc Andreesen," People (11 Sept. 1995); "Netscape proved real bonanza for its insiders," Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette (19 Nov. 1995).
- See Box 3: "Netscape fights back," Upside (Mar. 1998); "The education of Marc Andreessen," Business Week (13 Apr. 1998); "Mosaic team's work lives on," Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette (9 Jun. 1999); "Netscape founder reflects on success," Commercial News (Danville) (Mar. 2003).
- See Box 4: "Netscape's tumble cheers detractors," USA Today (5 Mar. 1996).
- See Box 5: "Microsoft says Internet browser idea arose long before Netscape," New York Times (6 Aug. 1998).

Illinois Distributed Museum

Donte Winslow, "Mosaic", Illinois Distributed Museum.
"Marc Andreessen", Illinois Distributed Museum.

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