NCSA Mosaic

This is NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers. If you’re on Ubuntu or something like it, your time machine is fueled up and ready to go. Follow the instructions below to build and run.

Many thanks to Sean MacLennan and Alan Wylie for doing the heavy lifting. And, of course, hats off to Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina, and the rest of the NCSA team for kicking things off for us. Thanks!

Building

First, install these packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libmotif-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev x11proto-print-dev libxmu-headers libxpm-dev libxmu-dev

Next, build with:

make linux

Run!

src/Mosaic