On this day in 1986 the National Science Foundation opened the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. This further established the University’s position as a “center for excellence” for research into high-performance computing. Among the University’s most famous alumni is Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen. Between 1992 – 1993 Andreessen, who was at the time an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, invented Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser which Andreessen later transformed into Netscape.
