Important People: Principal Figures in the Development of the
Internet and the World Wide Web |Marc Andreessen||John Perry
Barlow||Tim Berners-Lee||Jeff Bezos| |Vannevar Bush||Steve
Case||Vinton G. Cerf||James H. Clark| |Steve Crocker||Doug
Engelbart||David Filo and Jerry Yang |Rob Glaser||Al Gore||James
Gosling||Robert E. Kahn| |Mitchell David Kapor||Joseph Carl
Robnett Licklider||Carl Malamud||Bob Metcalfe| |Nicholas
Negroponte||Ted H. Nelson||Mark Pesce||Jonathan B. Postel|
|Linus Torvalds||Larry Wall||Phil Zimmerman||Other |Marc
Andreessen, a computer designer in his twenties, helped create
the path-breaking browser Mosaic in 1993 while an undergraduate
student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In
those days, Mosaic was one of the few graphic-smart programs for
viewing WWW pages on the Internet. Andreessen was one of seven
members of the original Mosaic development team at the National
Center for Supercomputer Applications at the university. In
1994, Andreessen cofounded a company, now na