10 Facts About VMS Mosaic

1.

NCSA VMS Mosaic is a discontinued web browser, one of the first to be widely available.

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2.

VMS Mosaic is the first browser to display images inline with text instead of in a separate window.

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3.

VMS Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign beginning in late 1992.

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4.

VMS Mosaic is based on the libwww library and thus supported a wide variety of Internet protocols included in the library: Archie, FTP, gopher, HTTP, NNTP, telnet, WAIS.

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5.

The Unix version of VMS Mosaic was already famous before the Microsoft Windows, Amiga, and Mac versions were released.

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6.

VMS Mosaic was the first browser to explore the concept of collaborative annotation in 1993 but never passed the test state.

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7.

VMS Mosaic was the first browser that could submit forms to a server.

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8.

VMS Mosaic is the celebrated graphical "browser" that allows users to travel through the world of electronic information using a point-and-click interface.

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9.

VMS Mosaic is not the most direct way to find online information.

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10.

Marc Andreessen's realization of VMS Mosaic, based on the work of Berners-Lee and the hypertext theorists before him, is generally recognized as the beginning of the web as it is known.

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