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Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 24:58 Chris Dixon And so, um, so anyway, so those, so you sort of saw the internet play out that way, um, and that, in that case, it took probably 15, it was probably 2000, you know, 93 was mosaic, and 2000, I would say five-ish was sort of YouTube, and…
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 23:42 Marc Andreessen So even a decade later, even a decade after the founding of Netscape, development of Mosaic and finding Netscape in a decade later, it was still considered weird and bizarre.
- ▶ 44:07 Marc Andreessen On a semi related project and then figured out that, you know, with, with a bunch of my colleagues there at the time that there was a, you know, we had ultimately this idea that led to mosaic.
- ▶ 50:25 Marc Andreessen And so, you know, the, the experience a lot of people had the first time they used Mosaic on, even, even on a broadband connection, the first time they had it is you would literally watch 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:06 Marc Andreessen Um, so there was this feature built, we built into mosaic and it was built into browsers, um, which was, um, I forget exactly when it popped up, but, um, view source, the idea basically was you're looking at, you're looking at a webpage,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:52 Marc Andreessen Eric and I co-wrote the first version of Mosaic, which was for Unix workstations. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:46 Marc Andreessen So, uh, you know, it was a phenomenal year, because it was the takeoff year for the, it was the takeoff year for the web, for the browser, for all this stuff, for Mosaic. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:02 Marc Andreessen So this was the, this was the, and so it was what happened where, so all of this activity, like Mosaic was driving network bandwidth, right?
- ▶ 1:27:00 Marc Andreessen And then they'd have mosaic or they'd have, you know, whatever on the, on the, on the, on the disk. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:46 Ben Horowitz Um, it was actually called Mosaic, right, at the time?
- ▶ 1:47:46 Ben Horowitz Well, it goes back to the original mosaic story, you know, like, um, it seems like you're giving a lot up by being open, but you know, you're, you're actually opening the whole world to you. 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.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 4:16 Ken Kocienda Uh, so Mosaic, uh, when, uh, and, and the professor, oddly enough, loaded up, you know, one of the few websites, comparatively, that was available that, Yahoo, when it was text only.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 6:31 Chris Dixon And then there was sort of this really kind of unlikely alternative, which was this, at the time, pretty crappy experience in Mosaic and, you know, homebrew websites and Yahoo, and you talk about this, you know, in the book, but like, and…
- ▶ 9:05 Brian McCullough So it's that sort of chicken and egg thing where people see the web for the first time in the mosaic browser, cause it's easy to use cause you can get it on windows and they say, I want to create a cool thing like what I just saw.
- ▶ 31:34 Chris Dixon It's sort of, you know, broadband, smartphones, applications are the word processor, mosaic, eBay, you know, websites, Instagram, things like that, right?
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 1:46 Ben Horowitz This is an embarrassing question because I'm sitting next to Mark, but you know, one of the ones I remember most vividly was seeing mosaic because, you know, for years in tech, there were all these ideas about like, if you were in computer… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 4:13 Stephen Levy So Mark, it was a couple years before Clay published his book that you were at Mosaic Netscape.
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 1:18 Marc Andreessen So, back when my partner Eric Bina and I at University of Illinois in 1992 were first developing what became Mosaic, which was the forerunner to Netscape.
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge catalyst to start a company around the fledgling web browser, says Marc Andreessen. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 4:00 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, when we, when we wrote the code for Netscape, when we wrote the code for Mosaic in 1993, I mean, I had never, I, you know, I thought of myself I was like an okay programmer, but I had never heard of the term of a buffer,…
a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
- ▶ 3:13 Marc Benioff Um, everybody else was, you were at the university, you were writing code for mosaic, right, and these kind of things, so I think when that happened, I think when we got into 1994, 93, and then we saw that emerge, then it was clear,…
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 3:54 unnamed speaker Mosaic was the first browser, and Nescape is the company which made money, right?
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 5:04 Ben Horowitz And it wasn't till, you know, years later I joined Netscape, so, you know, when they had, ah, you know, the browser and Mosaic came out, which you are all too young to remember that. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 0:42 Marc Andreessen So, um, so, uh, my work at University of Illinois, uh, around Mosaic, which 2 times in the scene