Mist was a desktop Web3 browser, first envisaged by Alex van de Sande in November 2014.
Fabian Vogelsteller joined ETHDEV in January 2015 with a strong background in Meteor development. The team was built up as the project took shape through 2016 and 2017. Prior to the full Mist release an interim step was the delivery of a "single app browser", containing just the Wallet dapp, as a constrained test of the infrastructure.
Mist was discontinued in 2019 for a mixture of usability and more important security concerns:
The core Mist development team was: