Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Jim in this email writes, “I’m impressed with Mosaic, and clearly this seems to be getting adoption. If there’s any way that you and I, Marc, might be able to collaborate, that would be ‘of interest to me.’” The two of them get together and then they found this company on April 4th, 1994 called Electric Media. The initial goal of Electric Media, soon to be Netscape, is that oh, Marc is this hotshot programmer. Clearly the information superhighway is what this web is going to turn into. We’re going to do what SGI was supposed to do. We’re going to make set top boxes for the information superhighway. In retrospect you, got to be looking at them thinking, how dense are you? Marc Andreessen is the person in the world who understands what a crazy exponential phenomena the Internet is, the web is, what it can be. Marc had (I think) by this point already put the image tag into HTML, so they can now send images that render in browsers. And when Jim Clark emails him, they decide to go do the information superhighway and not to do the Internet. Yeah, this is amazing. The way they’re going to do this as a startup—this is so great—one of the other big things that SGI had done besides building the graphics workstations that Hollywood ran on and did Jurassic Park and all that, was they were Nintendo’s technology partner for the N64. They made the graphics engine for the N64. Jim has this relationship with Nintendo. The N64 is going to be coming out. It’s going to be this amazing box in the living room attached to TVs in consumers’ homes. They’re going to team up with Nintendo and turn the N64 into an information superhighway box.…

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