Developed by NSCA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) at
the University of Illinois (United States) and distributed free of
charge since November 1993, Mosaic was the first browser for the
general public, and contributed greatly to the development of the web.
In early 1994, part of the Mosaic team migrated to the Netscape
Communications Corporation to develop a new browser called Netscape
Navigator. In 1995, Microsoft launched its own browser Internet
Explorer. Other browsers were launched then, like Opera and Safari,
Apple's browser.