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  • From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: history question: Mosaic
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:54:48 -0500


Steven Champeon wrote:
> > Apparently the original name for Adreesen and Clark's company was
> > Mosaic Communications Corporation. Which led to my question.
>
> Yes, and Spyglass/NCSA pitched a fit and they renamed the company
> after the browser, Netscape. You can still get copies of the old
> "Mosaic Netscape" - I have 0.93b on a disk somewhere :)

I wonder if "Mosaic" almost became a generic term for the browser.
Along the lines of "Gopher" and "Archie" et al. I seem to recall seeing
one of catalogue.com's first contracts (which I did not write) referring
to the development of a "Mosaic site".

TaB




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