Resumen
The article focuses on how the concept of the World Wide Web was conceived and how it developed and led to the so called Mosaic War, which was the hot topic of techie conversation a few years ago. The term hearkens back to the kinder and simpler era of Web antiquity. Like "navigator/browser," "helper app" and "X-windows," the term signifies a bygone era-the Web gilded age every software developer believed they had a chance at market dominance and Web surfing was a favorite pastime. It might be useful at this point to see if one can identify winners and losers in this Mosaic War of old, especially if one could then anticipate the outcome of remaining hostilities. The Web was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in 1989 as a shared information space supporting collaborative work. Berners-Lee defined HTTP and HTML at that time. As a proof of concept prototype, he developed the first Web client navigator-browser phone book database. By 1992, the interest in the Web was sufficient to produce four additional browsers-Erwise, Midas and Viola for X Windows and Cello for Windows. The following year, Marc Andreessen of the National Center for Supercomputer Application wrote Mosaic for X Windows which soon became the browser standard against which all others would be compared. Andreessen went on to cofound Netscape Communications Corp. in 1994. That's when the Mosaic War began