Spyglass, Inc.

Spyglass, Inc. (former NASDAQ ticker symbol SPYG), was an Internet software company based in Champaign, Illinois.

The company, founded in 1990, was an offshoot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and created to commercialize and support technologies from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). For several years, it focused on data visualization tools, such as graphing packages and 3D rendering engines.n`1
In May 1994, Spyglass licensed NCSA's Mosaic browser, with the intent to develop their own Web browser. However, NCSA's development effort had resulted in different features, user interfaces, and codebases for each of its major platforms: UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS. Spyglass therefore created its own Mosaic codebase in which most source code and all features were shared between platforms. Spyglass Mosaic's codebase was then licensed to Microsoft and became the basis for their Internet Explorer.