World Wide Web
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- Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
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- a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
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10 statements about World Wide Web, every show
Andreessen: Human readability and inspectability drive system adoption in web and AI
“There's an incredible latent power in giving everybody who uses the system The option to be able to drop down and actually understand and see how it's working. And that worked really well for the web, and I think it's working really well for AI.”
Rampell: The web is full of SEO-optimized junk content
“The world wide web is unhealthy right now. Most of the things on the internet are crap, and they're crap, and we know that they're crap, but they SEO optimized crap, so how do you decrapify that?”
Google could not have been built at any other time
“Google could not have been built at any other time in history.”
Rosenthal: Crawling the entire web from scratch became impossible by 1998
“If you had tried to undertake this as a brand new project, even just a year or a couple years later, it would have been impossible, because the web would have already gotten so big that to just start de novo and create a index copy like this, like a full copy.”
Gilbert: Indexing the full web would cost hundreds of millions by late 1990s
“Even one year later would have been tens of millions of dollars, and within a couple years would have been hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Andreessen: The World Wide Web gained one page daily in early 1993
“In early 93, it was like one new website a day. And by the way, by one new website, I don't mean like one new website. I don't mean like a new eBay a day or something. I mean like a new web page.”
Evans: Tim Berners-Lee's first web browser was also an editor
“The first web browser, Tim Berners-Lee's first web browser was also an editor because people thought this was like a document sharing tool.”
Dixon: Bill Gates's 1995 book 'The Road Ahead' omitted 'World Wide Web'
“The original version of Bill Gates's Road Ahead came out in 1995. It was talking about the future of computing and the word worldwide web did not occur in that book.”
Dixon: Web architecture should have included built-in identity and payment protocols
“That said, rewinding it would have been really nice to have built identity and payments in the first place.”