Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/March 4

Today in 1993 Marc Andreesen announced the NCSA Mosaic browser and introduced the HTML image tag. Mosaic quickly subsumed all text-oriented information search tools and surpassed them. Because it was easy to install, ported to several major operating systems and supported by a large institution (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NCSA), it became the first graphical user interface for the Web. It has been described as the killer application of the 1990s. Members of the development team founded Netscape in 1994; a rebranded version was packaged with Windows as Internet Explorer.