The First Internet Browser

April 4, 1994:

Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".  Netscape was the second company to attempt to capitalize on the (then) nascent World Wide Web. It was originally founded under the name, Mosaic Communications Corporation, on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as investors. Clark recruited other early Netscape team members from SGI and NCSA Mosaic, including Rosanne Siino who became Vice President of Communications. The company's first product was the web browser, called Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. This browser was subsequently renamed Netscape Navigator, and the company took the 'Netscape' name on November 14, 1994^[11] to avoid trademark ownership problems with NCSA, where the initial Netscape employees had previously created the NCSA Mosaic web browser. The Mosaic Netscape web browser used some NCSA Mosaic code with NCSA's permission, as noted in the application's "About" dialog box.

I'm old. I remember sort of using Mosaic, although I'm not sure if it was the Netscape Mosaic or the NCSA version.  How I remember it, you had to know a website address to get to it on Mosaic, and onces the Netscape Navigator came out, you could actually search for things.  I might have that wrong, at my age your memory starts to go.