From: marca@mcom.com (Marc Andreessen)
Subject: Here it is, world!
Date: 13 Oct 1994 07:57:12 GMT
Organization: Mosaic Communications Corporation
Reply-To: info@mcom.com
Mosaic Communications Corporation is making a public version of Mosaic
Netscape 0.9 Beta available for anonymous FTP. Mosaic Netscape is a
built-from-scratch Internet navigator featuring performance optimized for
14.4 modems, native JPEG support, and more.
You can FTP Mosaic Netscape 0.9 Beta from the following locations:
* ftp.mcom.com in /netscape
* gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/net/infosys/Mosaic-Comm
* lark.cc.ukans.edu in /Netscape
* ftp.meer.net in /Netscape
* doc.ic.ac.uk in /packages/Netscape
* archie.au in /pub/misc/netscape
* ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/winsock/nscape09.zip (PC only)
* mac.archive.umich.edu in /mac (Mac only)
Please make sure to read the README and LICENSE files.
An up-to-date listing of mirror sites can be obtained at any time by sending
email to release@mcom.com.
Subject to the timing and results of this beta cycle, Mosaic Communications
will release Mosaic Netscape 1.0, also available free for personal use via
the Internet. It will be subject to license terms; please review them when
and if you obtain Mosaic Netscape 1.0.
A commercial version of Mosaic Netscape 1.0, including technical support
from Mosaic Communications, will be available upon completion of the beta
cycle. Contact us at info@mcom.com for more information.
Have fun!
Marc and the gang
info@mcom.com, http://mosaic.mcom.com/
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/02a.gif
Splash screen to Mosaic NetScape 0.7, circa 1994
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/02b.gif
Splash screen to Mosaic Netscape 0.9-0.93, circa 1994
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/02c.gif
Splash screen to Netscape 0.96-1.0, circa 1994
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/02d.gif
Splash screen to Netscape 1.1, circa 1995
Please note that I'm not using a Mac OS 7x.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/screen/screen1.gif
Screen capture, NCSA Mosaic 1.0
1. This is the toolbar and interface most users are familiar with the day Mosaic NetScape is released. The term "bookmark" has not entered our vocabulary yet, and collections of interesting URLs are saved in a "hotlist." The Hotlist menu is seen on the Mac Toolbar in this image.
2. Note that there is no quick way of entering a new URL to open. To goto a new web page, the user must either select "Open" from the "File" menu or use the keyboard shortcut Alt-U (Windows), Command-U (Mac), or Meta-U (Unix).
3. The toolbar buttons are extremely rudimentary: back, forward, and home. The image of the NCSA logo (at far left of toolbar, with globe) does not take you to NCSA Mosaic's home page, as you may expect. Rather, it serves as the "stop" button to terminate the loading of a web page.
4. A list of recently visited web pages does not appear in the Mac Toolbar, but rather as a pop-up menu in the toolbar of the browser.
5. Unlike the consistency of interface we will come to expect amongst platforms with Netscape, Mosaic's interface appears different on every platform. For example, in X-Windows on Unix, users are used to seeing the NCSA Mosaic logo at the right side, not left side of the toolbar. The URL also appears in the browser window for Unix-users.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/screen/screen2.gif
Screen capture, Mosaic Netscape 0.9
1. The first public release, some features have not appeared yet, such as any semblance of the security status of web pages.
2. The Mosaic Communications logo appears flat on the browser toolbar, and will not become a button until version 0.93.
3. The toolbar is extremely spaced out vertically, consuming valuable real estate. By version 0.93, the toolbar will take only about 75% as much vertical space.
4. Web pages are still denoted in NCSA Mosaic-speak "Current." Henceforth, pages will be referred to as "Location:".
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/screen/screen3.gif
Screen capture, Netscape 0.93
1. Compared to NCSA Mosaic, Netscape offers more menu choices in the Mac Toolbar. The list of recently visited web pages moves away from the browser window into the "Go" menu, while our Mosaic Hotlist has been renamed "Bookmarks."
2. The title of the web page, in this case "version 0.93 Beta," appears exactly as it is coded in HTML. Netscape has not begun the onerous practice of prefixing every web page title with "Netscape: "
3. The toolbar navigation buttons offer many more options that NCSA's did. Instead of clicking on a logo, users stop transfers with a self-explanatory "stop" button.
4. The Netscape button at far right of the toolbar takes users to Netscape's home page. At this point in time, a rotating Mosaic Communications logo inhabits this position.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/screen/screen4.gif
Screen capture, Netscape 0.94
1. No major browser interface changes are made for version 0.94.
2. The "about:" page has been slightly redesigned.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/screen/screen5.gif
Screen capture, Netscape Navigator 0.96
1. Several browser interface changes are made with the release of the final beta of Netscape's browser. For the last few releases, the browser has been called "Netscape." From this release forward, it is named "Netscape Navigator."
2. In a move to create nearly identical interfaces across the Macintosh, Windows, and Unix platforms, a help menu ("Help") is added to the toolbar - as opposed to being placed under Apple's balloon help menu.
3. Meticulous users will notice that Netscape attempts to categorize the toolbar buttons subliminally for users. Note that there is slightly more space between the "Home" and "Reload" buttons. Also note the increased space between the "Find" and "Stop" buttons.
4. The rotating Mosaic Communications logo has been replaced by a throbbing blue "N" representing an interim solution following the corporation's name change. The search for a corporate logo will continue into 1995.
5. Several buttons in the Personal Toolbar are changed. "Guided Tour" gives way to "Welcome." "Newsgroups" has been replaced by "What's Cool?"
6. The security indicator in the bottom left corner of the window has been stylized. Original a red keyhole, it is now a golden key.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/screen/screen6.gif
Screen capture, Netscape Navigator 1.0
1. No significant browser interface changes are made for version 1.0, except a redesigned "about:" page.
2. Two versions of 1.0 are released. One, dubbed "1.0N," represents the net release available for download free of charge. The other, "1.0," is the version which would be sold. This distinction disappears two revisions later when 1.12 is released.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/mosaic.gif
Download icon for Mosaic Netscape, versions prior to 0.96.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/N.gif
Download icon for Netscape, versions 0.96 through 1.0.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/Nrunup5.gif
Runner-up #5. "Introducing... Mozilla!"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/Nrunup4.gif
Runner-up #4. "N Walks Over the Earth"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/Nrunup3.gif
Runner-up #3. "Mozilla Climbs the N"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/Nrunup2.gif
Runner-up #2. "Sunrise, Sunset"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/Nrunup1.gif
Runner-up #1. "Dancing Documents"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movi ... tplace.gif
Winner. "Meteor Shower"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/movie/Nfinal.gif
Final Version. "Meteor Shower".
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/home ... e-logo.jpg
The "boilerplate" logo Mosaic Communications used on many of their early web pages.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mozilla/home ... /tiles.gif
An early title image for the Mosaic Communications web site, predating Mozilla's appearance.
It is unclear if this image was intended for general circulation.
[EDITED, fixed tags, removed duplicated links. Please do a bit editing and document sources before posting thanks.]
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