[1] Spyglass was created to commercialize and support technologies from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

The company was acquired by OpenTV in 2000, now part of Kudelski Group, in a $2.5 billion stock swap.

[3] However, NCSA's development effort had resulted in different features, user interfaces, and codebases for each of its major platforms: UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and classic Mac OS.

Spyglass' Mosaic code became the basis for Internet Explorer, which was released as an add-on to Windows 95 in the Microsoft Plus!

[13] Spyglass did not offer their server as a retail product, instead licensing it in volume to original equipment manufacturers, as it did with its browser.

[citation needed] On March 26, 2000, OpenTV revealed plans to acquire Spyglass in a $2.5 billion stock swap.