wooby's Journal: Running NCSA Mosaic on NetBSD

Last night I occupied myself with the process of compiling NCSA Mosaic.

Fortunately, this guy has modified the Makefile to work on most modern systems. He compiled on Linux, but I found that his version compiled painlessly on my system once I'd installed the OpenMotif package.

Browsing is quick and pages are tolerable yet mangled.

Mosaic, the development of which ended in 1997 at version 2.7, is the direct predecessor of Netscape and considered the grandfather of web browsers. Spyglass Inc., a commercial venture that marketed NCSA technologies, licensed its Mosaic version, Spyglass Mosaic, to Microsoft in 1995. The result was Internet Explorer.