Internet History Podcast

1. (Ch 1.1) Mosaic - The "First" Web Browser


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Summary:

Ayoung Marc Andreessen and a team of programmers at the NCSA on the campus of the University of Illinois create and publish the Mosaic browser, thereby creating the world wide web’s first killer app. Mosaic enjoys meteoric, overnight discuss. But the higher ups at the NCSA take the project away from the “kids” who created it. Examining Mosaic as the “trial run” for the product that would eventually be called Netscape Navigator.

Bibliography:

  •  http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/25/8266639/
  •  Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business; Reid, Robert H.; Wiley, 2nd Edition, 1999
  •  http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/09/04/205894/index.htm
  •  http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/14/business/6-tips-on-how-to-earn-52-million-by-age-24.html
  •  http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/12/80043/index.htm
  •  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c8iWUh3Sv4
  •  https://vimeo.com/7053726
  •  http://www.thocp.net/biographies/andreesen_marc.htm
  •  http://users.rcn.com/thomst/marca.html
  •  Forbes ASAP, August 28, 1995, The Coming Software Shift, George Gilder
  •  A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime; Naughton, John; Overlook Hardcover, 2000
  •  http://www.mit.edu/~mkgray/net/web-growth-summary.html
  •  http://www.breakingwindows.net/1link10.htm
  •  The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams; Kaplan, David A.; William Morrow, 1999
  •  http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/shiftgg.html
  •  Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft; Clark, Jim; Edwards, Own; St. Martin’s Press, 1999

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