Mosaic web browser: 30 years of changing the world.

The Mosaic web browser, launched 30 years ago this month, combined text and images in the same window and allowed users to click on hyperlinks to go to other pages or sites. It was a major innovation that made looking at websites like reading a magazine page. Mosaic's features of combining words and images on one web page, its use of embedded hyperlinks, and its standard UI are the basics for all web browsers released afterwards. Its impact on the growth of the web and its impact on daily life shows the kind of dramatic payoff that NSF investments in computer science research can have for all areas of science and engineering, education and society as a whole.