I have my criticisms of Marc Andreesen, including the general shadiness of A16Z. But his involvement with NCSA Mosaic and the eventual rise of Netscape is not one of them.
We need to give credit where credit is due.
We need to give credit where credit is due.
> I brought up the ordinary comforts of kinship, friendship, craft, memory, legend, lore, skills passed down across generations, and other benefits that small towns provide: things that make human beings human beings. I pointed out that there must be something in the kind of places he grew up in worth preserving. I dared venture that it is always worth mourning when a venerable human community passes from the Earth; that maybe people are more than just figures finding their proper price on the balance sheet of life …
> And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it.
> “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”
Prague or Seattle, or, villages hours away from each.
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I certainly loved Netscape 3 back in the day.
Andreesen lucked into being the first person to successfully create the world's most inevitable and obvious product. He did nothing but take a swing at the right time and get traction thanks to the taxpayer funded educational establishment he was in.
Following that luck he mismanaged the business to the point of total failure, slowing the development of the independent web and handing the reigns to Microsoft. An error we're only now truly emerging from thanks to the rise of mobile and the unmasking of Google for what it is.
In the interim he took the money he lucked into to write manifestos praising fascists as thought leaders and elevated people like Zuckerberg whose products have fueled genocide, the spreading of lies and insurrection.
Andreesen is a parasite who thinks the animal he's feeding from is dependent on him.
"he mismanaged the business to the point of total failure"
"Google for what it is"
"write manifestos praising fascists as thought leaders"
ah, right.
“do your own research”.
(also not the name i'm used to)