Browser Wars - Kickstarting a Revolution | 1

Business Wars

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History, David Brown, Business, Management

4.6 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1992, and in the basement of the chemistry building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two computer science students are working on a new web browser. Up to this point, browsing has made up less than one percent of all internet traffic, but Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina are about to change all that. Fueled by a combination of Pepperidge Farm cookies, Skittles and hubris, Andreessen and Bina emerge from the basement with Mosaic, the user-friendly web browser that will popularize the internet—if it doesn’t crash the school’s server first.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars ad-free on Amazon music.
0:04.8	Download the app today.
0:07.0	It's August 1994.
0:15.3	The worldwide web is so new that, well, just listen to this exchange between NBC's Bryant
0:22.5	Gumball and Katie Kourik on the Today Show.
0:25.5	They're trying to wrap their heads around this thing called Internet.
0:28.5	What is Internet?
0:32.5	Internet is that massive computer network.
0:35.7	The one that's becoming really big now.
0:38.5	What do you mean that's big?
0:39.5	How does one...
0:40.5	What do you write to it like mail?
0:42.1	No, a lot of people use it.
0:43.5	Okay, so that's the technological equivalent of embarrassing middle school pictures.
0:48.1	But eventually, everyone gets what the Internet is.
0:51.8	The question then became how to get on this information superhighway.
0:57.2	Not that there was much to see back then.
0:59.6	Only a couple thousand boring websites existed.
1:02.5	No flashy graphics or videos.
1:05.3	Just line after line of plain text.
1:10.1	But a year after Kourik and Gumball puzzle over Internet, a new company is getting people
1:15.3	on the Internet at breakneck speed.
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