Eric Bina

Eric Bina is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Mosaic - Netscape - 1993 - Marc Andreessen - National Center for Supercomputing Applications - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Bina attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating from there with a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science in 1986 and a master's degree in 1988. He joined NCSA in 1991 as a programmer. There Bina and Adreessen started working on Mosaic in December 1992 and had a working version by March 1993. Mosaic was posted to the Internet and is famed as the first killer-application that popularized the Internet.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Bachelor of science - 1986 - Master's degree - 1988 - NCSA - 1991 - Mosaic - 1992 - 1993 - Internet

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Eric is reported to have been a very skilled programmer during the time that he worked on Mosaic, and posessed a legendary work ethic that is characterized by several 48-hour stints of continuous software development.

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In 1995, Bina and Andreessen were awarded the ACM Software System Award.

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1995 - Andreessen - ACM

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In 2005, Eric Bina lives in Champaign, Illinois.

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2005 - Champaign - Illinois

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