What was (Netscape Communications co-founder) Marc Andreessens contribution?
Marc picked it up and tried it out. Tony the other day showed us the e-mail he got from Marc, saying, “Congratulations, this is super,” and then giving him a list of about 10 bugs. Over the next few days, he got an additional 10 messages from Marc with bug reports and additional features Marc wanted. At this point Tony felt he didn’t want to work on the browser full time, and got out of the business. Marc took over. Once Mosaic came out from the NCSA, it really started moving. But it all started among a bunch of physicists. It really had to start somewhere, and it all started here in high-energy physics. High-energy physics means atom smashing? We don’t do atoms anymore; they’re too big. We smash particles. At SLAC we work on electrons. At Fermilab they do protons. How did the first graphical browsers get started? In parallel with all of our Web development there was an effort going on at Los Alamos. We had a pre-print server, so you’d get the pre-prints. That’s OK, but if you were goi
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