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- From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
- To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: history question: Mosaic
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:20:47 -0500
on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:54:48PM -0500, Thomas A. Beckett wrote:
> 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".
Well, IIRC, it was used as a shorthand term for "World Wide Web", more
than for the browser itself. Hence the "Mosaic site" modifier. But hey.
I may not RC.
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Re: history question: Mosaic,
Josep LluĂs Guallar Esteve, 01/19/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Thomas A. Beckett, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Simon Spero, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Thomas A. Beckett, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Paul Jones, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Dykki Settle, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Paul Jones, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Paul Jones, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Thomas A. Beckett, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, saundrakaerubel.com, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, Steve Burnett, 01/19/2001
- Re: history question: Mosaic, saundrakaerubel.com, 01/19/2001
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