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Dixon: Crypto users in 2018 already exceed Netscape's peak user base
“I think Netscape at their peak was, like, fifty million users or something. I mean, the numbers, like, crypto's probably above that right now.”
Andreessen: Netscape Almost Acquired Yahoo for $3M–$5M
“Netscape, we almost bought Yahoo. There was like a bid ass spread between like 3,000,005 million dollars.”
Andreessen: Cross-site scripting was unknown when Netscape invented JavaScript in 1995
“When we invented JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, the concept of cross-site scripting was a complete unknown.”
Horowitz: Netscape had 90% market share of 55M internet users in 1996
“96, I think we had 90% browser share mark and we had fifty million users. So there was like fifty five million people on the internet.”
Hastings: Pure Software doubled annually and IPO'd one week before Netscape
“Because then I was able to start a company, it doubled every year, went public, one week before Netscape, actually, and so for one week, we were the big topic.”
Andreessen: Netscape held 90% market share when the internet had 50M users
“We had at one point over 90%, you know, market share for all people on the internet using our browser, and it turned out there were fifty million people on the internet. Like, fifty million people around the world were on the internet. By the way, twenty-five …”