All of the online services are basically becoming TCP/IP services. Their users are going to be able to run whatever software they want – it may be ours or somebody else’s, but all these services know this. Microsoft is realizing that proprietary services are going to be a dead end.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:The following is an excerpt from a 1995 Wired Magazine interview of Marc Andreessen by HotWired’s Chip Bayers: ”The tremendously exciting thing that’s happening is that all of the online services are basically becoming TCP/IP services. Their users are going to be able to run whatever software they want – it may be ours or somebody else’s, but all these services know this. Microsoft is realizing that proprietary services are going to be a dead end.”
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: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Why Bill Gates Wants to Be the Next Marc Andreessen
Quote Type: Direct quote
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