The First Real Browser and AMD’s First Dual-Cores (PCGH-Retro, April 21)

…1993: The web is still a young medium these days, online offers are rare. But as the number of servers has increased, surfing the World Wide Web has become increasingly popular since HTML inventor Tim Berners-Lee released the first browser in December 1990. However, it was still very uncomfortable, the first version could not even display images; alternative programs can do this now, but you have to click on a link each time. That’s changing with the NCSA Mosaic, which will be available for download on April 21: For the first time, it can display text and graphics on one page at the same time – only then will the web become a multimedia tool. Developed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Mosaic is initially available for Unix systems, versions for other platforms including Windows will follow later. Among the developers is Marc Andreessen, who will later found Netscape and program the Navigator browser; Mosaic also has a lasting influence on most other browsers, for example Microsoft bought a license in 1994 to be allowed to use the technology in its own Internet Explorer. However, the development of Mosaic itself was discontinued with the release of version 3.0 in 1997.

…2005: AMD is at the top of the processor market at this time. The in-house Athlon 64 architecture not only dominates Intel’s Netburst CPUs in terms of absolute performance, but also and above all in terms of energy efficiency. As of today, April 21, the Texans are expanding their range with dual-core processors in the form of Opteron server models and the Athlon 64 X2 intended for the desktop – the latter, however, is only announced, the official launch will not take place until May 31 (see also) instead of.