Netscape, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Netscape comes up
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 16:08 Benedict Evans And how do you, how do you differentiate, you know, it's the Netscape comparison again, how do you differentiate it when the technology is 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Benedict Evans It's as though you're, you know, you're Netscape in 1994, ok?
The AI presentation
- ▶ 7:58 Benedict Evans Um, and then there was AOL, and Pointcast, and Flash, and plugins, and portals, and Netscape, and everything, no one kind of knew what questions to ask, and how any of this was going to work, and, and, and, and Google was five years away,… 2 times in the scene
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 6:15 Benedict Evans Yeah, well, you know, it's a, it's a famous story that, that Mark Zuckerberg asked, um, Mark Andreessen, what was Netscape? 2 times in the scene
Ai eats the world
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans Having this conversation with somebody who was sort of around building companies in the nineties and he was saying like, is ChatGPT Netscape or is it the web browser or is it HTML or like.
Google's Antitrust case
- ▶ 29:50 Benedict Evans And some of it was about saying, well, you have to, you can't include Netscape.
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 27:08 Benedict Evans But that's also kind of the point is that, you know, we're not at the point where you can tell people install Netscape.
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 25:44 Benedict Evans The problem is, and then you get a sort of best viewed in Netscape kind of experience where like this wallet, you need to use that wallet because everyone's coding to that wallet.
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 49:20 Benedict Evans There should be an NFT of the Mozilla, of the Netscape logo. 2 times in the scene
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 6:03 Benedict Evans So, you know, this phrase I probably use on every podcast is that when Netscape launched in 1994, there were less than a hundred million PCs on us. 2 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 33:34 Benedict Evans And when Netscape launched in 1994, there were less than a hundred million PCs on Earth.
What comes next?
- ▶ 14:01 Benedict Evans Even when Netscape launched there in 94, there were like 75 to a hundred million PCs on earth, like on the whole planet.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 1:27 Benedict Evans When the internet, when Netscape started in 1994, there were like a hundred million PCs on earth.
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 2:36 Benedict Evans There were only maybe a hundred million PCs on earth when Netscape launched.
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 12:24 Benedict Evans It's just reminding people of the blindingly obvious point that Netscape was launched in 1994.
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 33:45 Benedict Evans When, when Netscape launched in 94, there were something like a hundred million PCs on earth.