I took a few hours, downloaded xmosaic-1.2 and got it working on Max OS/X as part of an article I was writing - the code is here in case you want to experience what the web was like in 1993 :)
Pre-Requisites - Download and install X-Windows and OpenMotif from:
https://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
https://www.ist-inc.com/motif/download/index.html
OpenMotif installs into /usr/OpenMotif
Here is a compiled Binary Distribution that should work on Max OS/X 10.6 or later (with the pre-requisites installed).
You can look at the NCSA README but here are the quick instructions.
cd libwww
make clean all
cd ../libhtmlw
make clean all
cd ../src
make clean all
From the src directory start xmosaic:
./xmosaic &
I have made very few changes to let it browse a bit more of the web reasonably:
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It uses HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP 1.0 so it can see virtual hosted sites
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It uses sips to convert all images to gif to give best chance of seeing them.
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It ignores ampersand hex values as those were not invented yet
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It hides content between script and style tags as those were not invented yet
It also is pretty chatty in the console while it is running - I am still working on the code and want to see if it breaks.