Overview
The success of Mosaic, widely acclaimed as the "killer application" for the Internet, has created a demand for commercial-caliber software and services for global networks. It is this growing demand that Mosaic Communications Corporation was founded to address.
The foundations of the information superhighway are in place. The Internet -- an interconnection of tens of thousands of public and private networks worldwide -- today provides more than 25 million users with access to information from around the globe. This complex of networks forms the initial pathway for the global information revolution that will eventually link businesses, public and private agencies and educational centers with one another and with consumers in their homes.
Navigating successfully through the mountains of data available on these vast networks may be the greatest challenge the information age presents. Recognizing this challenge, a team of staff and students at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1993 created a graphical user interface that simplified Internet navigation. Called Mosaic, the research prototype -- offered free to everyone on the network -- gained a following of an estimated 2 million users in a single year.
The success of Mosaic, widely acclaimed as the "killer application" for the Internet, has created a demand for commercial-caliber software and services for global networks. It is this growing demand that Mosaic Communications Corporation was founded to address.
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