{"id":20336,"date":"2018-01-29T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20336"},"modified":"2018-01-29T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:25:57","slug":"mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic&rsquo;s Birthday: 25 Years of the Modern Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web\/\">Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Illinois_Alma\/status\/956262927782199298\">@Illinois_Alma<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web\/\"><p>In the beginning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/practical-tech.com\/network\/wais-and-web-the-future-of-internet-data-searching\/49\/\">web, or WEB as it was known then,<\/a> was a mystery. Like gopher and archie, it was a character-based internet tool interface that only the proud, the few, and the early internet users knew about. Then, everything changed. First, the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpe.com\/us\/en\/insights\/articles\/the-real-history-of-the-modern-internet-1801.html\">Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) made it easy for anyone to get on the net<\/a>, and then two graduate students, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, created the first popular web browser: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsa.illinois.edu\/enabling\/mosaic\">Mosaic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (via @Illinois_Alma): In the beginning, the web, or WEB as it was known then, was a mystery. Like gopher and archie, it was a character-based internet tool interface that only the proud, the few, and the early internet users knew about. Then, everything changed. First, the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[295,30,32,853,96],"class_list":["post-20336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-mosaic","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20337,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions\/20337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}