NCSA Mosaic
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Mosaic is the original graphical web browser. I still like its funky
look and feel. Somehow, it just feels more friendly than modern
browsers.

Development of Mosaic stopped in 1996 (official date was January 7th
1997). I have updated Mosaic so it will compile on a modern Linux
system. I also added support for the gopher info tag.

So why bother? If you are going to run a ten year old protocol, you
might as well use a ten year old browser. Mosaic makes a perfectly
adequate gopher browser.

While you can use Mosaic to browse the web, most pages will not
display properly. Remember, in 1996 HTML 2.0 was very
new. HTTP/1.0 was only introduced in 1996. Gopher was in it heyday. So
the result is that Mosaic crashes alot on web sites

			 Want to try it out?

I have tested the tarball against RedHat 7.3/8.0, Slackware 8.1, and
Debian 2.2. You must have OpenMotif installed to compile Mosaic since
it is a Motif application. If you use lesstif, you will have problems
with the URL bar.

  1. Get the source tarball:
       gopher://seanm.ca/99/gofish/Mosaic-2.7b6.tar.gz
		or
       http://seanm.ca:70/9/gofish/Mosaic-2.7b6.tar.gz
  2. Untar the file.
  3. cd Mosaic-src
  4. make linux
  5. cp src/Mosaic /usr/local/bin
  6. mkdir $HOME/.mosaic
  7. Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic link: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/
My Mosaic page:   http://seanm.ca/mosaic/
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