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Andreessen thinks there was a "Deal" that was betrayed. I have thoughts on what would be closer to the actual arrangement, if not a "deal" because there's no was no such thing. If anyone betrayed anything, it was Andreessen and his peers. www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

There's a conservative trope that young radicals are self-destructive, seeking to undermine the conditions that allowed them to be educated and supported their egalitarian values. The truth is that this is precisely what the tech oligarchs are doing www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

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The Mosaic browser was developed at a research unit in a state research university, and received an NSF grant. Andreessen then went off and created Netscape based on what he learned from that process. Now he cheers the destruction of that entire infrastructure www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

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Moose Billigans

20 Jan

He’s a total asshole.

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I kind of wish he didn't get funded and he ended up stuck in Wisconsin as a struggling dairy farmer. Someone else would have pioneered the web browser. And that person probably would have been less of a narcissistic dick.

ncsa.illinois.eduNCSA Mosaic™ - NCSAProject Profile People had created Web browsers before. In fact Tim Berners-Lee, who first conceived of the World Wide Web while working at CERN, built a rudimentary one himself in 1990. Prior to anyo...

I kind of love how NCSA's own history of their project begins with "People had created Web browsers before." www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/pro...

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They say "never meet your heroes." Years ago as a trucker I listened to a lot of podcasts, including the Internet History Podcast. As a computer nerd whose first was a Commodore Vic-20, I had such admiration for Marc Andreessen and that whole era. Loved those interviews on IHP. Now? Well, you know.

Jamie Levine Daniel

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