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...consortium, he brings together its members--Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Apple, IBM and 155 others--and tries to broker agreement on technical standards even as the software underlying the Web rapidly evolves. His nightmare is a Web that "becomes more than one Web, so that you need 16 different browsers, depending on what you're looking at." He especially loathes those BEST VIEWED WITH ACME BROWSER signs on Websites...
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...
...Nelson, who had pursued it as the "Xanadu" project. But Nelson wanted Xanadu to make a profit, and this vastly complicated the system, which never got off the ground. Berners-Lee, in contrast, persuaded CERN to let go of intellectual property to get the Web airborne. A no-frills browser was put in the public domain--downloadable to all comers, who could use it, love it, send it to friends and even improve...
...network computing--as well as some mellowing that has come with age--appears to have left Ellison ready to cooperate. Already Oracle has begun to form an anti-Microsoft axis with Silicon Valley neighbors Sun Microsystems and Netscape, which Ellison says may have the perfect NC interface with its browser. Inside the firm, coo Lane now runs day-to-day operations, leaving Ellison free to think big, strategic thoughts. The calculus is simple, according to Bobby Cameron of Forrester Research: "Ray Lane has his chair on the ground...
...happen to be a Lycos man myself. For the past four years, I have pointed my Web browser to its site (www.lycos.com) in search of everything from the Holy Grail to love. Partially out of loyalty and partially out of appreciation for their page's layout, I have continued to use Lycos...