01/01/1993
Mosaic, later becomes the Netscape browser which was the most popular browser in the mid 1990's, was a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher.
Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign beginning in late 1992. NCSA released the browser officially in 1993.
Mosaic became the first heavily downloaded browser that made the web accessible to non-programmers, and credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.