Mosaic Plus Ten

Slashdot has reported it, but it's worth echoing - ten years ago today Mosaic 0.10 shipped. It had the basically good underlying architecture due in large part to TimBL, and Andreessen's magic extra: the IMG tag - Web pages with pictures! Web purists sneered then, and maybe some still do, but the arrival of pictures was (and remains) huge. The world in general and I in particular both owe these guys considerable thanks, because the Web is better than what came before, and, for the moment, better than the alternatives.

I got on the Web sometime in 1994 via a 9600-baud modem, and got down to serious Web programming in November of that year, and I haven't stopped since then, and I'm not planning to.