Public research university in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois — one of America's leading engineering and computer science schools — whose alumni include Marc Andreessen (Netscape, a16z), YouTube co-founders, and numerous other technology company founders.
Produced a disproportionate share of the talent that built the internet industry — the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) at Illinois created Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, which was the direct precursor to Netscape Navigator.
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