Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today.

jwz

According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim Clark would go ballistic...

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Jon PENNYCOOK

@jwz it was a great day when my university installed Netscape 0.9 - a huge improvement over Mosaic! That was back in the days when you had to use the Internet before lunchtime because it would all ground to a halt when America logged on.

Khleedril

@jonpsp @jwz To be fair, Mosaic was already amazing. Netscape just made everything better.