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:Note: This article is about Spyglass, Inc. However, spyglass also means a telescope or set of lenses used to observe subjects at distance.

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Spyglass, Inc., was an internet software company (NASDAQ SPYG) based in Champaign, Illinois. The company founded in 1990, was an offshoot of the University of Illinois and created to commercialize and support technologies from National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Prominent among these was the Mosaic browser, of which Spyglass licensed the technology and trademarks to develop their own Web browser. The source code of Spyglass Mosaic was licensed to Microsoft and became the basis for their Internet Explorer.

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NASDAQ - Champaign, Illinois - 1990 - University of Illinois - NCSA - Mosaic - Source code - Microsoft - Internet Explorer

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