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<p>Last night I occupied myself with the process of compiling <a href="http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html">NCSA Mosaic.</a> </p><p>Fortunately, <a href="http://www.seanm.ca/mosaic/">this guy</a> has modified the Makefile to work on most modern systems. He compiled on Linux, but I found that his version compiled painlessly on my system once I'd installed the OpenMotif package.</p><p>Browsing is quick and pages are tolerable yet mangled.</p><p>Mosaic, the development of which ended in 1997 at version 2.7, is the direct predecessor of Netscape and considered the grandfather of web browsers. Spyglass Inc., a commercial venture that marketed NCSA technologies, licensed its Mosaic version, Spyglass Mosaic, to Microsoft in 1995. The result was Internet Explorer.</p>
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