Marc Andreessen

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Marc Andreessen

   <person> The man who founded {Netscape Communications
   Corporation} in April 1994 with {Dr. James H. Clark}.
   Andreessen has been a director since September 1994.

   As an undergraduate at the {University of Illinois} in
   Champaign, Andreessen created the {Mosaic} {web browser}
   prototype with a team of students and staff at the
   university's {National Center for Supercomputing Applications}
   (NCSA).  With a friendly, {point-and-click} method for
   {navigating} the {Internet} and free distribution to network
   users, NCSA Mosaic gained an estimated two million users
   worldwide in just over one year.  Andreessen earned his
   bachelor of science degree in computer science at the
   University of Illinois in 1993.

   Home
   (http://netscape.com/columns/techvision/index.html).

   (1999-04-12)
    

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