NCSA Mosaic Demo Document http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/demo.htmlNCSA What's New page http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html
NCSA Mosaic is a window on the ever-expanding world of online information, bringing the most advanced multimedia networked information resources to any user's fingertips. As a distributed hypermedia browser designed for information discovery and retrieval, NCSA Mosaic provides a unified interface to the diverse protocols, data formats, and information archives used on the Internet.
The Internet provides access to a worldwide collection of information resources and services that has grown up over the last two decades. Each element of this global community has its own unique flavor, culture and methods. For a new user, this can be confusing; NCSA Mosaic draws these disparate pieces into a seamless picture that can be viewed effortlessly.
The NCSA Mosaic interface is based on the idea of hypermedia, where electronic links-known as hyperlinks-are embedded in richly formatted documents that can include full-color images and sound. These documents are presented to users like the pages of an interactive, scrollable, online book. NCSA Mosaic thus gives users the ability to move around in a complex document, and from document to document across the network, by clicking on the hyperlinks. Throughout the user's travels, this consistent and simple interface is used for both navigation and document viewing.
In addition to giving users access to the World Wide Web servers for which it was designed, NCSA Mosaic transparently integrates material from a wide variety of existing information servers on the Internet-including Gopher, WAIS, and anonymous FTP servers-without moving to a different application for each one. Such capabilities opens a number of powerful approaches for discovering, using, and sharing information in the networked environment. For example, the user can take advantage of the full-text and index-based search tools provided by WAIS to locate a particular document. As development continues, the system's flexible design allows other information and data resources, such as relational databases, to be integrated into the NCSA Mosaic environment.
Further information on NCSA Mosaic can be obtained:
Mosaic for X Windows http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/help-about.htmlMosaic for Macintosh http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/MacMosaic/ MacMacintoshHome.html
Mosaic for Windows http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/HomePage.html