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Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 39:22 Marc Andreessen Um, and then I ended up working for what's called NCSA, which was the National Center for Supercomputing.
- ▶ 44:18 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so what I got, so what I got hired to do at NCSA, what I got hired to do is I got hired into a group called the software development group, which was the group that was basically supposed to make, it was again funded by the National… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:08 Marc Andreessen And my computer, my computer, because I worked at, at IBM and then I worked at, at NCSA and we had all this money for the government at that point, my computer was an SGI, Silicon graphics at the time, uh, company leading, leading a Unix…
- ▶ 1:01:30 Marc Andreessen Um, so, uh, yeah, so we, we started basically a group of us at, at, at NCSA basically kind of went rogue in 1991 and, you know, started kind of working on this idea on nights and weekends.
- ▶ 1:09:41 Marc Andreessen Um, so I remember another one, like, so I was working on, I remember working, it was, it must have been, it was like December of 92 or January 93, so I'm like working around the clock in my little office, uh, at NCSA, and you know, this…
- ▶ 1:11:50 Marc Andreessen Well, my, my, my, my, my boss at the time, to his credit, you know, he, he was aware, and he, you know, he, he, he kind of, you know, he kind of, you know, I don't know, he, he didn't vigorously oppose us, and then he supported us, and…
- ▶ 1:23:24 Marc Andreessen I, I, I talked to the NCSA guys about staying there. 2 times in the scene
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 1:54 Kathleen Hicks Or the National Science Foundation funding the Supercomputing Center, where Marc Andreessen worked on his first web browser.