Mosaic Browser Quiz: The 1993 Browser That Changed the Web

This Mosaic browser quiz reloads the early web, when a free program from Illinois made the internet easy to explore. Play an interactive set of 10 questions on NCSA, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, inline images, Windows and Mac versions, Tim Berners-Lee's first browser, Netscape, Spyglass, Internet Explorer and Mosaic's end.

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Year
When was Mosaic released?
Where
Where was Mosaic developed?
Who
Which two programmers led its creation?
Images
What did Mosaic popularize on web pages?
Platforms
Which systems could run Mosaic?
First
Who created the very first web browser in 1990?
Netscape
Which company did Andreessen co-found in 1994?
Partner
Who co-founded Netscape with Andreessen?
IE
Which browser was built from licensed Mosaic code?
End
When did NCSA stop developing Mosaic?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: When was Mosaic released?
Answer: 1993
It spread quickly on campuses.
Q2: Where was Mosaic developed?
Answer: NCSA at the University of Illinois
It was a supercomputing center.
Q3: Which two programmers led its creation?
Answer: Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina
They were young at the time.
Q4: What did Mosaic popularize on web pages?
Answer: Images shown inline with text
Earlier browsers often opened images separately.
Q5: Which systems could run Mosaic?
Answer: Windows, Mac and Unix
This helped it spread.
Q6: Who created the very first web browser in 1990?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
It was called WorldWideWeb.
Q7: Which company did Andreessen co-found in 1994?
Answer: Netscape
Its Navigator browser became dominant.
Q8: Who co-founded Netscape with Andreessen?
Answer: Jim Clark
He had founded Silicon Graphics.
Q9: Which browser was built from licensed Mosaic code?
Answer: Internet Explorer
Microsoft licensed it through Spyglass.
Q10: When did NCSA stop developing Mosaic?
Answer: 1997
Newer browsers had taken over.

Mosaic Browser Quiz – The 1993 Browser That Changed the Web

Mosaic, released in 1993 by NCSA at the University of Illinois, made the World Wide Web easy and visual. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina led its development.

Its big innovation was showing images inline with text, and versions ran on Windows, Mac and Unix. Tim Berners-Lee had built the first browser in 1990, but Mosaic brought the web to a wider public.

Andreessen co-founded Netscape with Jim Clark in 1994, and its Navigator browser soon dominated. Mosaic code licensed through Spyglass became the base for Internet Explorer, and NCSA ended Mosaic in 1997. Its influence lives on in every browser today.

What This Quiz Teaches

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When Mosaic appeared
Who built it
What made it special
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When it ended

Did You Know?

Mosaic was free for non-commercial use.
The number of websites grew rapidly after its release.
Its bookmarks were called the hotlist.
Netscape's 1995 stock launch sparked the dot-com boom.
Some Mosaic ideas still shape browsers today.