What Does Mosaic Mean?
Mosaic is a web browser for accessing files, graphics and other documents on the World Wide Web. It is sometimes credited with being the application that made the web available to the general public. Features that contributed to its popularity included ease of installation, reliability and a user-friendly interface. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It was released in 1993.
Techopedia Explains Mosaic
Mosaic was introduced as a freeware application and was used as a client for former protocols like File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) and Gopher. In 1994, development was handed over to another corporation, Spyglass, which subsequently certified it to many other IT companies. Dozens of Mosaic versions were available; some were free while others were not. In January 1997, the software was officially discontinued, although it is still available for download on the NCSA website.
