In 1993, I tried out the Mosaic browser, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina while they were grad students at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I got to know Andreessen later, for better and worse (much worse as time went on and he became odder). His original browser was fast and able to display images and quickly made him a legend. He decamped to Silicon Valley, co-creating Netscape with a high-profile serial entrepreneur and frequent tech loudmouth named Jim Clark. The company went public in August of 1995, and the
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