What many call the Internet today celebrates kind of a thirty years birthday these days.
The Mosaic web browser was the first public available one of it‘s kind. Before it’s release in 1993 the young web was only availabe on high end Machines before. But from the Moment Marc Andreesen released Mosaic for Macs, PCs and Unix machines all over the World were able to check the level of coffee in a pot at the University of Cambridge. It was the start of the Web spreading all over the globe.
It was only a few years before that I joined the thing called Internet. We were using DOS based PCs (Windows was only an addon). And using a Service called Compuserve and some more or less local Mailboxes with dialup connections. – But without the invention of a Webbrowser and the HTML Markup Language today’s wild times on the Interet would have been impossible. While Mosaic‘s Birthday is sadly also a riminder of how old I am today it makes me thankful for the possibilities it added to life.
And no, the Internet was never really about TikTok or Facebook. The scale and value of Big Social Media seemed to very bright on the web and many people treat this to be the Internet today but it is best compared with the graffiti on the restroom walls at the Library of Alexandria. There is so much more to be really thankful.
Happy Birthday Mosaic!
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