NCSA Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic

One of the first graphical web browsers

desktop applicationNetworkWebBrowser
Install
apt install ncsa-mosaic
Description

NCSA Mosaic 2.7 is one of the first graphical web browsers, originally developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. It played a pivotal role in popularising the World Wide Web by introducing inline images and a point-and-click interface to navigate hypertext documents.

Features include support for HTTP, FTP, Gopher, NNTP and local file browsing, inline JPEG and PNG images, HTML forms, hotlists, session history, and PostScript printing.

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NCSA Mosaic

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This is NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers. If you're on Ubuntu or something like it, your time machine is fueled up and ready to go. Follow the instructions below to build and run.

Many thanks to Sean MacLennan and Alan Wylie for doing the heavy lifting. And, of course, hats off to Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina, and the rest of the NCSA team for kicking things off for us. Thanks!

Building

  • First, install these packages:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential libmotif-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev x11proto-print-dev libxmu-headers libxpm-dev libxmu-dev

  • Next, build with:

    make linux

  • Run!

    src/Mosaic

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