NCSA Mosaic

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2024 by Marc Andreessen · said 43 times in 14 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jun 28, 2024 neutral
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Andreessen unilaterally created the HTML image tag as a fait accompli
“We weren't making progress on it, and then I just did a, because I controlled, you know, I controlled Mosaic at that point, so I just did a fait accompli, and I just declared it, and I created the image tag.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:00:41 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
Jun 28, 2024
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Andreessen: NCSA Mosaic received over 400 enterprise licensing inquiries in 1993
“I remember when it hit like 400 of basically, of basic companies, you know, like general councils and, you know, procurement officers at big companies saying, you know, we want to deploy this throughout our company. You know, who do we pay?”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:05:42 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
Jun 28, 2024
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: The first NYT article on Mosaic featured uninvolved supervisors
“The bad news is it featured my boss and my boss's boss. Who had nothing to do with the project?”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:11:40 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
Jun 28, 2024
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Andreessen posted a personal job ad on NCSA Mosaic's About page
“I added to the about page for the web browser that everybody used at the time. I added saying, by the way, you know, one of the primary authors of this browser is graduating and is available to be hired.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:23:54 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
Jun 28, 2024
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Andreessen: NSF denied NCSA's grant proposal for Mosaic customer support
“We sent in this grant. It was the only place we had any sense of where to get money, and we sent in this grant, and literally, it came back denied. You know, the National Science Foundation is not in the business of, you know, funding customer support.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:07:04 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
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