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Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web. [17] [18] It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins as investors.
Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Apr 4, 2019 · Twenty-five years ago today, a group of tech pioneers founded the company that would eventually create Netscape Navigator. The browser lived a short life, but its legacy looms large.
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Jul 21, 2024 · Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, Cedar Falls, Iowa, U.S.) is an American-born software engineer who played a key role in creating the Web browser Mosaic and who cofounded Netscape Communications Corporation.
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Apr 4, 2014 · Though not technically the first internet startup per-se, Netscape was the first internet startup that mattered. It produced the first widely popular internet application, Netscape Navigator, and it grew symbiotically with the explosion in popularity of the World Wide Web.
Feb 10, 2000 · A series of meetings between the young software writer and the Silicon Valley legend led to the creation of Mosaic Communications, later to become Netscape Communications, in the spring of...
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Apr 4, 2014 · Founders Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen heralded the dot-com boom as we know it, creating the first popular web browsers, Mosaic and later Netscape Navigator, and helping build new standards...
