Mosaic 1.0: 33 years of the browser that invented the visual web

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0300

Have you ever stopped to think what the internet was like before you could see a photograph inside a page? Before the animated GIF, before the advertising banner, before any inline image on a web page at all? It was 1993, and the World Wide Web that Tim Berners-Lee had created three years earlier was a network of text. Blue underlined links, monospaced fonts, zero images. About as pretty as a medicine leaflet. Exactly 33 years ago, on 22 April 1993, a 21-year-old university student called Marc Andreessen released Mosaic 1.0 — and put an image inside a browser page for the first time. That was the beginning of everything.

Marc Andreessen on Locodigital

Mosaic 1.0: 33 years of the browser that invented the visual web