Without the web browser, there would be no Internet gambling – and without Mosaic, there’s no telling which direction the Internet would have have headed.
In the pre-Mosaic, browsing the Internet was anything but user friendly and required PhD level computer skills.
So the next time one of your players sits down to play a few hands of poker or places a wager on a football game, you can quietly thank the team of developers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for making it possible.