Marc Andreessen
The Web gained rapid acceptance with the creation of a Web
browser called Mosaic, which was developed in
the United States by Marc Andreessen and his colleagues
at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the
University of Illinois and was released in September
1993.
Mosaic allowed people using the Web to use the same sort
of "point-and-click" graphical manipulations that had been available in personal
computers for some years.
In April 1994, Andreessen cofounded Netscape
Communications Corporation, whose Netscape Navigator became the dominant
Web browser soon after its release in December 1994. By
the mid-1990s, millions of people were using the Web.
- Marc Andreessen, creator of Mosaic
at NCSA and Netscape
Marc's UG Resume: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/DG/Experimental/demoweb/old/marc-info.html
Marc's early days: http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~sheehan/marca.html
- On to Netscape,with a new executive team and lots of conference
presentations:
- http://www.decus.org/decus/people/andreessen.html
In 1995, the most dramatic initial public offering
(IPO) was Netscape Communications, a designer
of Internet-browsing computer software, which went public in August
at $28 per share and rapidly climbed to
$171, or 20 times 1997's projected revenues.
The average gain for 1995's IPOs was 37.4%. Netscape
gained 500%.
- Netscape
Communications Corporation was
co-founded in by Dr. James H. Clark, founder
of Silicon Graphics, a Fortune 500 computer systems company, and Marc
Andreessen, co-creator of the NCSA Mosaic software for the Internet.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark is
Chairman of Netscape Communications Corporation.