[ggchappell]

As long as we're being accurate:

> His single greatest achievement — the creation of the world’s first web browser, Mosaic — took place under the auspices of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

All correct, except for "first". The world's first web browser was WorldWideWeb[1], written by Tim Berners-Lee. But I suppose it is true that Mosaic was the first browser that got noticed by anyone other than the Chosen Few.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

[smacktoward]

If we want to really get pedantic, Mosaic was a "first" -- the first WWW browser to support embedding inline images in Web pages. Previous browsers were text-only; you could post images, but they could only be linked to, not displayed directly inside a page. That made the WWW too similar to Gopher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29) to really break out in popularity. Mosaic's support for inline graphics is what caused the Web's first real wave of general interest outside academia.

More here: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/04/0422mosaic-web-br...

[dredmorbius]

The modifier you're looking for is "first graphical WWW browser".

[smacktoward]

Not really; that would include any WWW browser with a GUI interface (like the original WorldWideWeb on NeXTSTEP).

[dredmorbius]

Notepad is a GUI text editor.

MS Paint is a graphical editor.

An application can have a GUI without being graphical. I'll confess to never having used WorldWideWeb on a NeXT box, though vids suggest it didn't do much in the way of typesetting or graphical rendering.