A Story about HTML5

Yet another piece for my multi genre paper. It's a story about HTML5. Read and find out what it is. Any feedback is fine.

One fine day in Silicon Valley, California, Mr. Steve Jobs, an Executive in the Apple Computer Company, and some people from Google and Adobe met about this new fangled thing they came up with called HTML5. Mr. Jobs said that it was great for mobile devices, like their iPhone. Adobe, who is notorious for their problem ridden plugins, said that HTML5 doesnt require plugins. Google said that they are trying it out on Youtube. Jobs said, "Well, I asked Bill Gates to come to, but him and I can't agree on anything. He's so mean to me. The phone rang. It was the W3C. They told the team that they would now officially support the creation of HTML5, even though it was only supposed to go to HTML4. Everyone cheered. The door flew open. In walked the one and only Bill Gates. "Hey guys!" he yelled. "Late as usual," whispered Mr. Jobs to Vint Cerf. "Hey Mac guy," Said Gates, "is it cool if i support this HTML5 thing on Internet Explorer?" "That would be great" said Jobs. The former foes shook hands and the the world stopped turning for a second and people everywhere gasped, because Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were agreeing on something and working together.

MOSAIC

Post one: A short report on MOSAIC, the "first" web browser created for my Multi Genre Research Paper. Although it is a first draft in this form, I would like all comments and thoughts. Good or bad.



The beginning of web browsing as we know it: MOSAIC

By Ryan Holzapfel

MOSAIC is the first web browser to incorporate web page viewing, File Transfer Protocol(FTP), multimedia file viewing, and many other things we take for granted in our web browsers of today. Before MOSAIC, there were separate programs for web page viewing and FTP sites. For instance, if you wanted to go to http://www.example.com and look at their webpage, and it listed a document for download that you wanted. Then you would have to go to a FTP site to retrieve the file. Lets call it ftp://example.com. Now, you would have to open your FTP client and go to that address to download the file. MOSAIC made this process obsolete.

MOSAIC was created by the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). The project was headed by Marc Andreessen. MOSAIC was first released in 1993. In 1994, NCSA assigned the rights to Spyglass Inc. Shortly after that, Spyglass Inc. licensed the rights to the technology to Netscape and Microsoft which were interested in developing their own browsers, similar to MOSAIC. In 1997, MOSAIC development was discontinued.

MOSAIC is still available for download on the internet, but the web is too advanced for it to work anymore.