The catalog of resources on the Internet will be supported by advertising in the future.
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: ”Where should we go? There’s a number of efforts to index the entire Internet. And one of the fun things that’s happening is that a number of them are starting to become companies in their own right. This is an index called Yahoo that’s been on the Net for about a year. The guys who started it are Ph.D. students at Stanford. Just a week ago they got a significant amount of venture capital backing. And now they’re striking out on their own. The catalog of resources on the Internet will be supported by advertising in the future.”
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 脨 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: Advertising/PR
Name of publication: Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories
Title, headline, chapter name: Marc Andreessen
Quote Type: Direct quote
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