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[Martin McEvoy]

timeless wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Tim Berners-Lee  apparently when he introduced a bunch of technologies such
>> as HTTP, HTML FTP, IP TCIP and others and called it the World Wide Web,
>> closely followed by the Mosaic Web Browser[1] a direct descendant of Firefox
>> ;-)
>>
>> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)]
>>     
>
> Netscape got the engineering team which made mosaic, hence Mozilla
> (mosaic killer). But the engine actually is more directly related to
> Internet Explorer.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#History
>   
IE and FF are both related to Mosaic ;-)   see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.#The_Browser_Wars


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Martin McEvoy

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