Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
&gt; Apple published HyperCard in 1987, six years before Mosaic, the first web browser<p>Mosaic was the first Mac and Windows web browser (1992-93) but the first UNIX&#x2F;NeXT web browser was WWW, 1990-91.<p>Bill Atkinson (and HyperCard) are awesome though. Imagine a networked HyperCard ushering in the web in 1987; or Intermedia for that matter in 1985; or much earlier in the 20th century a la Vannevar Bush (1930s) or Ted Nelson (1960s); or if Netscape had focused on Gopher, WAIS, FTP, and&#x2F;or NNTP and dropped HTTP as being superfluous.