I can’t believe it has been almost 10 years since NCSA Mosaic burst onto the scene. I remember making the jump from Gopher Servers and thinking, “Wow, this should make things interesting.”

It certainly did …

And Charles Cooper has an interesting perspective on What if Netscape had won?

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