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I work right next to the NCSA building, still amazed by some of the work they do. Especially, the move to add corporate partners. Ironically, still bitter abou
by lettergram 8y ago
I work right next to the NCSA building, still amazed by some of the work they do. Especially, the move to add corporate partners.
Ironically, still bitter about losing out on all the upside of the web browser. The university of Illinois is pretty notorious for missing out on the upside of their work: the browser, transistor, LED, MRI, and others...
- greglindahl 8y agoU Illinois got stock in Netscape, even though no NCSA Mosaic code was used in Netscape's codebase.
- ncsacodger 8y agoThat was Netscape's story at the time when they were being sued for copyright infringement, but it was fairly obvious that there was a certain amount of code copying. There were error messages with the same misspellings in them... Anyhow Netscape decided to settle the lawsuit and give UI the Netscape stock. Interestingly UI then licensed Mosaic to a company called Spyglass, and that version went on to become Internet Explorer 1.0.