Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

internetarchive @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org

12/2/2025, 5:03:11 PM

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Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since.

Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "NCSA.UIUC.EDU/SDG/SOFTWARE/MOSAIC". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the NCSA website for the Mosaic browser from December 20, 1996, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone labeled "Now".

Ed Summers @ink@merveilles.town

12/2/2025, 5:13:33 PM

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@internetarchive & try it out in Mosaic at

https://oldweb.today/?browser=nm2-mac#19960101/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

(note you might need to hit <enter> in the URL input field for the page to display)

A screenshot of oldweb.today displaying the contents of the Mosaic homepage in Mosaic 2.

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://merveilles.town/users/ink/statuses/115651091715264873 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)