Word: andreessen
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...Marc Andreessen built the prototype that became Mosaic as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. He went on to found Mosaic Communications Corp. with several other Mosaic developers...
...Mosaic is both the road map and the steering wheel," says Marc Andreessen, the 23-year-old programmer who co-authored the original version of Mosaic while an undergraduate working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Because the program was developed with government money, the students gave it away free. It soon spread through the network like a virus. A million copies were downloaded from the NCSA computer system in the first year. Another million were distributed in the next six months. Meanwhile, the number of Web "sites" you can visit...
Suddenly everybody's looking for a way to cash in on Mosaic's popularity, including Andreessen. In April he teamed up with Jim Clark, former chairman of Silicon Graphics, and started a new company called Mosaic Communications. Clark and Andreessen lured all but one of the original Mosaic team to Silicon Valley for some intense programming sessions. Last week they unveiled the first result: called Mosaic NetScape, it is faster and slicker, and it allows users to pass sensitive information such as credit-card numbers safely over the network...
...effort, Andreessen's team faces stiff competition. It comes both from Mosaic look-alikes, like MCC's MacWeb and Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic, and from a slew of new programs, like Netcom's NetCruiser and James Gleick's Pipeline, that work almost as well as Mosaic but don't require an elaborate Internet connection. If Mosaic has a weakness, it is that most computer users are not prepared to go through the hoops necessary to get it up and running. To address that problem, O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet...