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When Marc Andreessen first glimpsed the infant World Wide Web in 1992, only a small community of computer users had access to it and they had little interest in sharing their good fortune. "In fact, there was a definite element of actually wanting to keep the riffraff out," said Andreessen. This is the story of how Marc, a college student from Illinois, led the development of the killer App of all time, the first successful Internet browser that let anyone, including the riffraff, easily access the Web. After Andreessen, the Internet exploded with websites and our planet was never the same again.
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Marc Andreessen
The Young Man Who Opened the Web to Everyone
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Table of Contents
In the beginning
Fantastic! Stunning!
This was something that we should do
Working nonstop
Mosaic released
Conflict at NCSA
On to California
Starting all over
The new browser
The beginning of the end
After Netscape
About the Author
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By the power invested in me by nobody in particular...World Wide Web browser, X Mosaic, is hereby released. Cheers, Marc.
With that short message, 21-year-old college student Marc Andreessen announced to the world in 1993 the development of an astonishing new computer program that is perhaps more responsible than any other for popularizing the Internet and bringing it into hundreds of millions of homes,
according to Wired magazine.
There are two ages of the Internet - before Mosaic, and after,
a historian wrote. The Killer App of all time,
many called it.
Mosaic was the first software that let anyone easily access the text, images, sound, and color of the new World Wide Web. Its introduction sparked the Web's explosive growth of millions of websites that are
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