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< blockquote title =" Hudson, David.

Rewired: A Brief and Opinionated Net History "> Marc Andreessen's realization of Mosaic, based on the work of Berners-Lee and the hypertext theorists before him, is generally recognized as the beginning of the web as it is now known.

Mosaic, the first web browser to win over the Net masses, was released in 1993 and made freely accessible to the public.

The adjective phenomenal, so often overused in this industry, is genuinely applicable to the ... ' explosion ' in the growth of the web after Mosaic appeared on the scene.

Starting with next to nothing, the rates of the web growth ( quoted in the press ) hovering around tens of thousands of percent over ridiculously short periods of time were no real surprise < cite >( p. 42 )</ cite >.