We think that some day it should be possible for everyone to publish on the Net. As easily as people approach word-processing today. And that should be a huge market opportunity for a lot of companies. Everybody has something to say.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:The following was taken from a transcript of a video interview of Marc Andreessen, conducted for the Smithsonian Institution by David K. Allison, curator of the division of information technology and society at the National Museum of American History:”The Internet is a medium where anyone with a basic level of technical competence can create content. One of the things that we are going to try to do over the next few years is to try to create more and more tools to make it even easier for people to do that. We think that some day it should be possible for everyone to publish on the Net. As easily as people approach word-processing today. And that should be a huge market opportunity for a lot of companies. Everybody has something to say.”
Biography:Marc Andreessen worked with Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992, to develop a browser that would be usable on any computer, easy to use and graphically rich. In 1993, their browser, Mosaic, completely changed the face of the Internet Ð it allowed HTML “image” tags which make it so text and art can appear on the same page; it allowed easy text scrolling; and it introduced hyperlinks, allowing users to simply click on an area of the screen to go to another document on the Internet. In1994, Mosaic was developed and marketed; the product eventually was named Netscape. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories
Title, headline, chapter name: Marc Andreessen
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/ma1.html
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