The Mosaic web browser, developed in 1993 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was the first widely adopted cross-platform graphical web browser. It replaced text and command-line based networking with a point-and-click graphical interface that combined text and images on a single page, which helped spark the commercialization of the World Wide Web and the launch of the commercial internet era.
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Marc Andreessen, associated with Mosaic, is noted as having since been appointed to a board of technology advisers to the Department of War.
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1:34:32Urbana Champagne. It created the world's first widely adopted crossplatform graphical web browser. So it can like display images. It can like it dismantled this high technical barrier of texton command line networking. You know it's like not everybody wants to work with a terminal. >> You know what I mean? And so now you've got this pointandclick graphical interface because we already had the mouse and they figured, you know, we should use it for actual stuff. It unified um the text and multimedia on a single canvas and it sparked the commercialization of the worldwide web and launched the commercial internet age. So this is um you know I think
1:35:14where Mark Andre really made his name. 1993 is when they're like, "Oh." >> And now he's just been elevated to the board of technology adviserss to the Department of War. But we'll see how that goes. I feel like we're regressing, though, because now cloud code is all terminal only. I want my guey. I want my graphical user interface. So, hey, if you're out there and you're trying to figure out ways to innovate, figure out how to move stuff like Claude code into a guey, you might be the next mosaic web browser type inventor. 1993 big year cancellation of the superconducting super collider which again we've talked about as one of the greatest >> failures >> failures for America in terms of these
1:35:55largecale science projects. >> Yeah. So as as we're reaching the end of our timeline I did want to mention what happens when we drop the ball.