The History of Blog - Andreesen and Bina

NCSA building

The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, it was formed in January 1986 and it was founded by the faculty members of the university, led by Larry Smarr. The NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyberinfrastructure. NCSA works with universities and colleges, government agencies, companies and schools to discover the benefits of cyberinfrastructure.

Larry Smarr

Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems, data mining, data management, data storage systems, date integration, advanced data acquisition, data visualization environments, tools, and people all linked together by the used of software and networks to improve research productivity over the internet.

1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the Mosaic at NCSA

Marc Anreessen and Eric Bina

Mosaic is the first popular graphical browser for the World Wide Web and was release to the public at the same year. The graphical browser gave the internet users to easy access to multimedia sources of information and sharing or exchange of information

Before, the files were just written by hand or in type writer and stored in a cabinet or vault but it will not take a long years to preserve, and the file can also turn into dust. Nowadays, most of the important information or secret information files of a company and government are saved in the computer because it takes a hundred years or even more just to keep these files for future use. But it’s a highly risk against the cyber attack.

Today, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is recognized as an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and they’re developing new computing, software technologies, tools, and techniques to improve national cyber security and to help law enforcement better respond to cyber attacks, the attacker person are what we called hacker

In June at the same year, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) started a what’s new list of sites notably the site provided entries sorts by date and the what’s new links included commentary. This service was eventually taken over by Netscape in what becomes one of the more popular web sites of its time.

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