The NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser was not the first web browser available. However, it was the first truly user-friendly browser and gained a lot of popularity in a short period of time.

The creator of Internet Explorer, Thomas Reardon, is said to have used source code from Spyglass Mosaic, a licensed version of NCSA's Mosaic browser. Despite being derived from NCSA's Mosaic ...

However, Mosaic was different. The browser was first developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina when they were graduate students at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA ...