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...same time, the firm's employees became both rich and famous. Vice President Marc Andreessen was a Horatio Alger for the 1990s, parlaying the fruits of an eight-dollar-an-hour campus coding job into a personal net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars. At one point, Netscape banned real-time stock tickers from company computers, as millionaire employees spent the days watching their net worth increase with the value of their options...
...soles. Shoes are too pedestrian, too confining, too predictable. These fellows are so confident, they don't need footgear. All power; no loafers. Moguls can affect a Gandhi-like purity. Putting the best barefoot forward in this trend was TIME's 1996 cover shot of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen displaying his pedicure-needy toes. Other celebrities who have recently unshod for the camera: Harrison Ford and Donald Trump (PEOPLE), Jackie Chan and Matthew McConaughey (GQ) and Yahoo! co-founder David Filo (Newsweek...
...less breathless accounts, the World Wide Web could prove as important as the printing press. That would make Berners-Lee comparable to, well, Gutenberg, more or less. Yet so far, most of the wealth and fame emanating from the Web have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year-old Volkswagen Rabbit. He has a smallish, barren office at M.I.T., where his nonprofit group, the World Wide Web Consortium...
Berners-Lee also wrote the first server software. And, contrary to the mythology surrounding Netscape, it was he, not Andreessen, who wrote the first "graphical user interface" Web browser. (Nor was Andreessen's browser the first to feature pictures; but it was the first to put pictures and text in the same window, a key innovation...
That will take some doing. Matching its fiscal reality to Wall Street's hopes will mean completing one of the great Horatio Alger stories in the history of American business. As every self-respecting teenage computer ace knows, Netscape was born in the ratty University of Illinois dorm of Andreessen, then 21, a Midwesterner who liked nothing so much as an afternoon in front of the computer, geeking out. Over a few dozen of those code-filled afternoons in 1993, Andreessen and his youthful collaborators put the finishing touches on the Model T of Web-browsing programs. They called...