Mosaic
An early web browser that helped popularize the web.
Where Mosaic comes up1 episode or test
What was said about Mosaic
Mosaic dropped a shared annotations layer because it could not scale. Mosaic nearly shipped an annotations layer that would have let anyone see everyone's commentary on any web page.
It was cut because a server holding notes for the whole web could not scale.
Mosaic's gray backgrounds and blue links came from one founder's taste. Mosaic's default look of gray backgrounds and blue links came from Marc Andreessen's own taste and the limits of 256-color screens.
Marc Andreessen: Blogposts, Tweetstorms, and Manifestos
It nearly shipped an annotations layer that let anyone see everyone's commentary on any page, but a server holding notes for the whole web could not scale. Its gray backgrounds and blue links came from Andreessen's own taste and 256-color screens.
Mosaic dropped a shared annotations layer because it could not scale. Mosaic nearly shipped an annotations layer that would have let anyone see everyone's commentary on any web page.
It was cut because a server holding notes for the whole web could not scale.
Mosaic's gray backgrounds and blue links came from one founder's taste. Mosaic's default look of gray backgrounds and blue links came from Marc Andreessen's own taste and the limits of 256-color screens.
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