It is a widely held belief that Marc Andreessen's Mosaic was the first Web browser. It was not. But what made it unique was that, unlike other browsers, Mosaic was easy to get up and running, and it was the first browser that could automatically display graphics along with text--leading to the cultural phenomenon that captured the attention of the masses and eventually created a multimillion-dollar consumer Internet industry.
This article was originally published in the March 2000 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Hero Worship.
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