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Re:Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993) by oceanic on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @03:30AM (#4574565)
This was the same year that NCSA Mosaic, the first ever web browser, was co-created by Marc Andreessen. He was probably working on Mosaic when he wrote this email.
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Re:Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993) by vdm on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @05:19AM (#4574797)
> the first ever web browser

Fact check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

> While often described as the first graphical web browser, Mosaic was preceded by WorldWideWeb and the lesser-known Erwise[5] and ViolaWWW.

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Re:Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993) by mseebach2 on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:01AM (#4574641)
Probably. If he wasn't, this bit from the first post becomes very weird:

> This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and we'll at least be using it internally.

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