DEVELOPED FIRST POPULAR WEB BROWSER
After graduating from high school, Andreessen attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. It was while working at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) that he became interested in the Internet. At the NCSA he worked with master programmer Eric Bina to develop an interface for the World Wide Web that would integrate text, graphics, and sound. In 1993 the NCSA team completed an interface called Mosaic and made it available for free over the Internet. More than 2 million copies of the browser were downloaded in the first year, and Mosaic was responsible for a ten-thousand fold increase in Web users over a period of two years.
Andreessen graduated from college in 1993 and took a job with California-based Enterprise Integration Technologies, which made Internet security enhancement products. However, one day he received an e-mail message from Jim Clark, a former associate professor of computer science at Stanford University. Clark was something of an entrepreneur, having founded Silicon Graphics Inc. He was interested in setting up a new company to work on Mosaic and improve it. Andreessen agreed to meet with Clark, and the two decided to combine Andreessen's technical know-how with Clark's business expertise to launch their own company in 1994.
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