 History
of the Internet
Internet Browsers
In 1993 the first and most handy Internet
browser, called Mosaic, was created at NCSA (National Center for
Supercomputer Applications) by Marc Andreesen and others
employees. It was considered at that time, the first user
friendly, easy to use, "clickable" browser. The trick
that Marc Andreesen and his team used to increase the publicity of
Mosaic was to give it away free for trial, and it worked, even
today there are people browsing on the Internet using Mosaic.
Marc Andreesen left NCSA in 1994 to start his own
company with Jim Clark Called the Netscape Communication
Corporation, together they founded the company in April. By the
Quarter ending in June 30 1994, Netscape had an income $1000.00
and a net loss of $1,253,000. By the Quarter ending of December 31
1995, Netscape had a net income of $2,358,000. In just over one
year and a half, the company grew to become a multi-million dollar
corporation. In 1996, 80% of all web surfers used Netscape while
the other 20% is using Internet Explorer or Hot Dog or many other
types of browsers. Netscapes main page has received over 10
billion hits with over 10 million hits per day. [Currently (2000),
Internet Explorer is the number one browser on the Net]
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