People fucking HATED Marc Andreesen for making the world wide web like magazines.
Why images are considered bad? Their absence seems really hurts expressiveness of at least some articles.
This was the first browser to add graphics and forms. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this software launched the modern web.
Marc Andreesen created Mosaic. He went on to co-found Netscape which released Navigator at the end of 1994 and had the largest IPO in history. After that it was the “Cool Site of the Day” and the race was on…
The big question was how much it’d cost: at that point in the United States at least you had companies like AOL or CompuServe which had been commercially viable for a decade or more but almost everything charged you back the minute and the phone company stranglehold kept speeds low even if you did spend a lot.
What made the internet and especially the early web interesting was that it had so much for free: you still needed a computer, modem, and ISP but once you had that you could do a ton of things without asking a monopolist for permission or paying Danegeld for the privilege of starting a business which made their business more profitable.
