I was in college at the University of Texas at the time, and my first exposure to Mosaic was in their new Student Microcomputer Facility. (Aka the SMF or 'Smurf

I was in college at the University of Texas at the time, and my first exposure to Mosaic was in their new Student Microcomputer Facility. (Aka the SMF or 'Smurf lab.) The SMF was a large and brand new ncomputer lab in the undergraduate library, equipped with something like 200 computers... 50 of them were Mac Quadras with 17 (!) inch monitors and the rest were Dell Dimension machines... 486DX2/66, local bus video, and 15 inch screens. These all had Mosaic installed with a UT page of some sort as the home. So, clicking on the icon brought up this hypertext display with this colorful 3-D rendered banner image at the top. It looked a lot like the hypertext help facility that Microsoft introduced with Windows 3.0, but better and network connected, and open, and accessible. Truly next generation stuff at the time, in particular in comparison to the purely character based internet that came immediately before. (Think telnet, archie, ftp, etc.)