While Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, most of us didn't find out about it until 1994 or so.
That's when Marc Andreessen, who was a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, helped created a program called Mosaic. It was the first browser that made it easy to travel around the Internet and its graphical side, the World Wide Web.One who thought Mosaic was a cool tool was Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and has a Ph.D. in computer science at University of Utah. He contacted Andressen and, after a few talks, they launched Mosaic Communications in April 1994. The company changed its name to Netscape in November 1994 after complaints from the university.
It released the Netscape Navigator browser shortly thereafter.
It's been nothing but 'Net since. The Netscape Navigator, which the company distributed free to any one who dropped by its Web site, made surfing the Internet and the World Wide Web a national pastime.