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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.
Sep 15, 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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Netscape's co-founder, Mark Andreessen, was born in 1972 in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, to a salesman and his wife, who worked for Land's End. As Andreessen grew up, the personal computer was also coming of age, and he wrote his first BASIC programs--video games--at the precocious age of eight.
Jul 4, 2023 · Netscape was not born in a vacuum. Its story began when two tech visionaries, James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, and Marc Andreessen, co-author of the Mosaic web browser, joined...
Aug 29, 2024 · The company was founded in April 1994 as Mosaic Communications Corp. by James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen. Clark had previously founded and been chairman of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of computer workstations.
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Apr 3, 2014 · Netscape, of course, was the company that would launch the dot com era. 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.
