National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Then they added graphics at display things, which was very useful.

In 93, Mark Andreessen did the first release of Mosaic at NCSA.

In 94, he founded Netscape.

In 95, he went public.

degrees and whatnot, but very often they add skills by working on the job and, you know, being able to deploy these systems into existing data centers simply give engineers a chance to see them and mess around with them.

That really leads into our other topic because today I'm in Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which is the home of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NCSA, and they're having their, every other year, their biannual NCSA Industry Partner Program where they talk about partnering NCSA with other nearby companies that can leverage those facilities.

There's a research park here.

Companies such as Bayer and Caterpillar and AbbVie have been partners for a long time and many more.

And quantum has been a topic here as well.

It's not like they haven't heard of it.

NCSA is investing in quantum research.

The companies that are involved are interested in what the long-term outlook is for quantum.

He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which then ranked second only to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Engineering, and was one of five institutions in the U.S. chosen to host an NSF-funded supercomputer program.

Andreessen worked at the school's National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s, where he helped create the groundbreaking Mosaic browser, which made the World Wide Web accessible to the masses.

Soon, Andreessen was off to California for an $80,000 tech job.

Then, with Silicon Graphics Inc. founder Jim Clark, he co-founded Mosaic Communications, as if they were authorized to build the commercial edition of the university's Mosaic program.

So his index was literally just a typed out list of active servers.

And similarly, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the NCSA in Illinois, they maintained a web page simply called What's New.

Just what's new with an exclamation point.

Yep.

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Explorer, or even NCSA Mosaic-

Ooh-hoo

... uh, right off the disc.

Nobody notices except Mark Andreessen and Eric Bina.

at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, who do the Mosaic browser, which gets downloaded bazillions of times, that really made the internet take off.

Suddenly it becomes accessible and useful.

People are handcrafting their HTML until finally automated tools were available.