Version 1 of the Mosaic browser is released and SeaGate hits One Billion Hard Drive sales. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1993 – Version 1 of Mosaic Browser
The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) release version 1.0 of the web browser Mosaic. Mosaic is the first software to provide a multimediagraphical user interface (GUI) for internet content. It’s popularity will extend to the fact that it is easy to install for the average user to install and is also highly reliable. It popularity and growth rate of 341,634% means that the programme will become known as the “killer app of the nineties” and the first popular internet browser.
2008 – SeaGate Hits One Billion
The manufacturing company Seagate, who build hard drives announce that it has shipped one billion hard drives since its founding in 1979. The company becomes the first hard drive manufacturer to reach the milestone. SeaGate dominates the world hard drive market with a market share of 35% in 2007. The capacity of the drives shipped would amount to 79 million terabytes (TB). Because of increasing demand, SeaGate expects to ship another billion drives within the next five years.
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