This is how big things had become by early 1997 – exposés were appearing in men’s magazines. “he initial version of Mosaic drew on the innovations of earlier browsers, which already included many of the features aimed at making the software easy and appealing for non-geeks, features that would later become staples of the genre, such as icon buttons (back, forward, home), bookmarks…and a variety of attractive fonts and typefaces,” said an article in GQ. It stood on the shoulders of giant ideas and became a giant in its own right. NCSA Mosaic broke out in a way that no previous browser had even begun to. Prior to anyone at NCSA putting down a line of code, researchers in Palo Alto and Berkeley and Helsinki were circulating their own versions, frequently with melodious names like Viola and Cello. In fact Tim Berners-Lee, who first conceived of the World Wide Web while working at CERN, built a rudimentary one himself in 1990.
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