Opening in January 1986 as one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation´s Supercomputer Centers Program - part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The center works to further high-performance computing and networking and in developing software applications. NCSA greatly broadened the user base of remote supercomputing and the Internet with NCSA Telnet in 1987. In 1991, the center introduced NCSA Mosaic, the first readily-available graphical Web Browser.