Eric J. Bina

Co-creator of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape, Bina authored the first version of Mosaic in 1993 along with Marc Andreessen while working as a programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1986 and a Master's degree in 1988. Bina joined NCSA in 1991 as a programmer.

There, he and Marc Andreessen started working on Mosaic in December 1992 and had a working version by March 1993. Mosaic was posted to the Internet and is famed as the first killer application that popularized the Internet. He was one of only five (or six) inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.

Bina has been recognized as a very skilled programmer during the time that he worked on Mosaic, and possessed a legendary work ethic characterized by several 48-hour stints of continuous software development. His unofficial job title at NCSA—which appeared on his business cards—was "Unsung Hero." In 1995, he and Andreessen received the ACM Software System Award, and in 2010, Bina and Andreessen were inducted into the University of Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame.