@aral The salient point is that although both companies’ #browsers did not appreciably derive actual mechanisms (code) from #NCSA, they would not exist without #NCSAMosaic’s initial research, design, and refinement.

So both @kpeace and @keithzg are correct depending on one’s perspective.

@kpeace @keithzg @aral Yes, but no.

Both companies’ web #browsers trace their origins to #Mosaic by The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (#NCSA).

#Netscape Navigator was a rewrite of #NCSAMosaic by its co-creators.

#Microsoft #InternetExplorer was based on code licensed from Spyglass, a #Mosaic trademark and technology licensee who had supposedly only used the original code sparingly.

Ok got the #Tandy1000 set up on my desk, all hooked up.

Setting up packet driver networking... tweeking #NCSA telnet's keymap to work with the #Tandy keyboard....

Sure I've done this before, I could restore an old backup, but where's the fun in that?

D2 just got an email asking if was interested in #NCSA, and I think that's cool. Then I read about it, and apparently it's some sports thing. Weird. Oh well, only NCSA I know is this one: https://ncsa.illinois.edu/

@petersuber I vividly remember the early days of the web when it was unclear whether it would matter to average people compared to walled-garden services like #AOL (then #AmericaOnline), #Prodigy, or #CompuServe.

IMHO the web’s early rise depended on two other factors:
• Graphical #browsers like #NCSA #Mosaic on mainstream computer operating systems (1993)
• Decommissioning of the US government-funded #NSFNET backbone, effectively ending restrictions on commercial Internet traffic (1995)

From the "Around this day 20 years ago" - Fully populated Forece10 e1200 chassis in the core of an HPC system from when I worked at NCSA.
These boxes were very ahead of their time, we were a really early customer, so much that we worked with them on features. Not much of anything had the density these things had. I recall one particular upgrade (moving from vxworks to NetBSD on the line cards) took upwards of 25 minutes. Nothing beat the cable tray, though

#hpc #ncsa #supercomputing #force10

Spending the weekend at the #NCSA annual #Sociology conference in Grand Rapids, and let me just say that I am very excited about the future of sociological research!

วันนี้มางานนี้ The 5th ITSec Asia ลุงที่มาจาก Thailand #NCSA บอกว่า ใครอยู่เมืองไทย หรือชาวต่างชาติที่มาอยู่เมืองไทย ต้องใช้ Line นะ ไม่งั้นจะคุยกับคนไทยไม่ได้ ติดต่อคนไทยลำบากมาก ต้องใช้ติดต่อ ใช้ทำงาน เจ้านายจะติดต่อคุณด้วย Line นะ #อิหย้งฟะ
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เอ่อ ผมเป็นคนไทย ไม่ Lie เลยไม่ใช้ Line ก็ติดต่อคนอื่น ๆ ได้นะ สงสัยลุงไม่รู้จักอีเมล์ ใช้โทรศัพท์มือถือไม่เป็น ไม่รู้จัก Microsoft Teams น่าสงสารจัง
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ปล. Line ไม่ใช่เอาไว้สั่งงานนะวะครับ
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#iamSK #ITPro #ITNomad #ITSec #ITSecAsia #Bangkok
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@c0debabe If your mentor didn’t tell you the truth—that #Apache httpd was a *patchy* server originally based on #NCSA httpd—it’s because the ASF has tried to bury that history. http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/open_source_rewrite_history.html

If you want to save yourself from triggering shit takes and extreme ableist content, you should know that the #NCSA is the paramilitary faction of #AutismSpeaks.

#actuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

My humble #introduction :

Grew up in the #Chicago suburbs, went to the #UniversityofIllinois, worked at the #NCSA and #Intel, and now work at #UIC as the College of Medicine's Director of Information Security.

Interests are #cybersecurity, #linux, #3d printing, #cycling, #dogs, #musescore, #ingress, and about a thousand other things.

Schon gewußt? #ITI

Beim "Entdecken" des #Internets war #Microsoft spät dran. Um bezüglich eines #Webbrowsers nicht komplett ohne dazustehen, wurde (mal wieder) auf Arbeit Anderer zurückgegriffen.

So wurde eine Lizenz zur Nutzung von #NCSA #Mosaic erworben. Diese Basis wurde früher im #Internet #Explorer (IE) auch stets erwähnt.

Damit setzte der IE auf der gleichen historischen Basis wie der #Netscape #Navigator auf, da der Netscape-Mitbegründer Marc Andreessen einer der Mosaic-Entwickler war.

TIL there were commits to the #NCSA #Mosaic repo last year. Also that there is a Mosaic repo in Github. Also that people are hacking on it again. https://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic

History: NCSA Mosaic was the first popular graphical web browser, and is the ancestor to both Firefox and IE Its devs left NCSA to found #Netscape (a from-scratch reimplementation), which became #Firefox. Meanwhile, NCSA licensed Mosaic to #Spyglass, which Microsoft licensed to form the first #InternetExplorer. Whew.