The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun: Don’t Look Now, But Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe Are All Suddenly Obsolete – and Mosaic is Well on its Way to Becoming the World’s Standard Interface | Imagining the Internet

The prediction, in brief:

Mosaic is about to get a boot up the backside … There are an awful lot of good browsers coming out. Mosaic isn’t the only one.

Predictor: CERN Developer

Prediction, in context:

In a 1994 article for Wired magazine about the Internet’s latest killer app, Mosaic, Gary Wolf writes:”Ironically, the ingenious network that you see with Mosaic has been around for several years. It is called the World Wide Web … Some programmers active in the World Wide Web community resent all the attention Mosaic has received. They know that the real heart of the World Wide Web is the data standard and the addressing system. They argue that any bozo – or at least any sufficiently talented bozo – can write a browser. ‘A guy on our project wrote a browser in a week,’ says one unimpressed programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose name I withhold out of sympathy for the administrator of his e-mail account. Other Web wizards agree. ‘Mosaic is about to get a boot up the backside,’ says an experienced developer at CERN in Geneva. ‘There are an awful lot of good browsers coming out. Mosaic isn’t the only one.'”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1994

Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure

Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software

Name of publication: Wired

Title, headline, chapter name: The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun: Don’t Look Now, But Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe Are All Suddenly Obsolete – and Mosaic is Well on its Way to Becoming the World’s Standard Interface

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mosaic_pr.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney