NCSA offered Mosaic free from its website, and soon more than 5,000 copies were being downloaded every month; the center was receiving hundreds of thousands of email inquiries a week, and Internet traffic was dramatically rising. NCSA Mosaic won multiple technology awards, including being named as 1993 Product of the Year by InfoWorld magazine and 1994 Technology of the Year by IndustryWeek magazine. The technology was quickly transferred to the private sector, with Marc Andreessen and several other Mosaic developers launching Netscape and more than 100 companies, including Microsoft, licensing the software through start-up Spyglass, to make it first version of Internet Explorer, IE 1.0,  as said in NCSA website.

The modern web browsers like Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox are the direct descendents of Mosaic, and one can see its influence even after 20 years of its release.

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