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0 pointszalew13y ago0 comments

yep. for some context:

One of the first times Zuckerberg and I (Mark Andreessen) got together, in 2005 or 2006, he stopped me in the middle of conversation and asked: “What did Netscape do?”

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1

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rgbrenner13y ago

Andreessen: One of the first times Zuckerberg and I got together, in 2005 or 2006, he stopped me in the middle of conversation and asked: “What did Netscape do?” And I said, “What do you mean, what did Netscape do?” And he was like, “Dude, I was in junior high. I wasn’t paying attention.

I have a hard time believing that. Zuckerberg is 6 months younger than me, and I remember Netscape clearly (the end/later part of it anyway).

octotoad13y ago

I know not everybody is a nostalgic nerd with a thing for tech industry history, but, yeah, I'm two years younger and even I was aware of the general history of Netscape's journey and choices by the time I was 14-15.

Perhaps he was too busy putting his head down, pumping out a real product instead of procrastinating and focusing on the past :)

rgbrenner13y ago

I thought about this a little more.. I think the reason I find it so hard to believe is because of the MS antitrust trial. It was a huge thing at the time and Netscape was a big part of it... so unless you were completely oblivious to computers and the internet, it would be hard to not know about Netscape.

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zalewOP13y ago

I'm more like: sooo, this dude didn't know crap about the internet and launched one of the biggest websites in the world. #fml

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hdra13y ago

not that hard to believe. I am 20 now, and I didn't even know much about iPhone when it launched. All I thought about it was that its just another super expensive phone, like one of Nokia's luxury phone. Coz I wasn't interested to these things at the time, and well, I wasn't paying attention.

jwoah1213y ago

A more apt comparison would be if you didn't know about the iPhone now. This conversation between Zuckerberg and Andreessen didn't happen right when Netscape came out.

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blhack13y ago

Misunderstand the quote more?

He's asking what netscape the group, as in the people building the software did, not what the software did.

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rgbrenner13y ago

I have a hard time believing that. Zuckerberg is 6 months younger than me, and I remember Netscape clearly (the end/later part of it anyway).

octotoad13y ago

Perhaps he was too busy putting his head down, pumping out a real product instead of procrastinating and focusing on the past :)

rgbrenner13y ago

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zalewOP13y ago

I'm more like: sooo, this dude didn't know crap about the internet and launched one of the biggest websites in the world. #fml

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hdra13y ago

jwoah1213y ago

A more apt comparison would be if you didn't know about the iPhone now. This conversation between Zuckerberg and Andreessen didn't happen right when Netscape came out.

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blhack13y ago

Misunderstand the quote more?

He's asking what netscape the group, as in the people building the software did, not what the software did.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse