> The answer is Mosaic. I came out in 1993 from the University Of Illinois
> the NCSA
> The author was Marc Andressen of Netscape fame...

Andressen was only one member of the NCSA team. Why he got all the credit
is a mystery. He had a good idea (the img tag) and was in the right place
at the right time. Such is the stuff of which fortunes are made :-( Tim
Berners-Lee invented the basic concept of the web and html and what did he
get?


> At 08:46 PM 08/25/2000 -0700, Ivor Barker wrote:
>...Where the heck did I get "Mozilla" from ?

Mozilla was the internal code name for the first versions of Netscape's
product. And it's still used in the mail headers:

>>>> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7

It's also the public name of their new "open source" browser.

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