Joseph Hardin: NCSA mosaic

Abstract

Joseph Hardin describes the emergence of Mosaic and the rise of the browser. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/-c8iWUh3Sv4 is a video interview in which author Charles Severance speaks with Joseph Hardin about the development of the Mosaic browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and how it introduced the World Wide Web to the general public. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/3F4PZ-7EFWs is an audio recording of author Charles Severance reading his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Joseph Hardin about the development of the Mosaic browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and how it introduced the World Wide Web to the general public. The third Web extra at http://youtu.be/gJ16VinDPY4 is a video interview with Larry Smarr about the birth and evolution of Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The fourth Web extra at http://www.computer.org/ csdl/mags/co/1994/10/rx049-abs.html is the article 'Mosaic and the World Wide Web' from the October 1994 issue of Computer, in which Ronald J. Vetter, Chris Spell, and Charles Ward describe the state of the art as it was nearly 20 years ago. © 2014 IEEE.