In the early Nineties, the fledgling World Wide Web was not easy to use. Unreliable, cumbersome and awkward, the earliest tools for navigating your way around the web were anything but user-friendly. When University of Illinois undergraduate Marc Andreessen and university employee Eric Bina attended a demonstration of the then-leading ViolaWWW browser, although impressed, they felt they could do better. They started putting their own browser together for use on Unix computers running X-Windows, and on 23rd January 1993, released Mosaic Version 0.5 to the internet-using public.
The original release of Mosaic made
