The problem with Mosaic is that it’s currently for the “haves” of the Internet. This is an attempt to bring this exciting end of the Internet to the average user. We think this is the future of on-line publishing.
Predictor: O'Reilly, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for the New York Times, technology columnist John Markoff reports on the revolutionary development of Mosaic, the first World Wide Web browsing program. Markoff writes: ”Many companies are now working on software that will make connecting to the Internet no more difficult than dialing into … on-line services. Earlier this week, for example, O’Reilly & Associates, in partnership with a Seattle software developer called Spry Inc., announced that next year it will begin distributing a software package for less than $100 called Internet-in-a-Box. The product, which will permit computer users to connect directly to the Internet, will also probably include a version of Mosaic to permit network novices to browse data stored in the Web. ‘The problem with Mosaic is that it’s currently for the “haves” of the Internet,’ said Tim O’Reilly, president of the publishing company. ‘This is an attempt to bring this exciting end of the Internet to the average user. We think this is the future of on-line publishing.'”
Biography:Tim O’Reilly was founder and first president of O’Reilly & Associates, a computer-book-publishing company that helped popularize the Internet in the decade of the 1990s. His Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and one of the initial commercial sites on the World Wide Web. He received InfoWorld’s Industry Achievement Award in 1998 for his advocacy on behalf of the Open Source community. He served on the board of trustees for the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: A Free and Simple Computer Link
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Section D; Page 1; Column 3: Financial Desk
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