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6. Mosaic and Internet Explorer Engineer, Chris Wilson

Internet History Podcast

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How I Found My Way to Microsoft

At Spry, he worked on a project that was sort of like a proto search engine. His job was basically to write a web crawler that would crawl Microsoft.com and index all the data there. He ended up writing an RTF parser and then using this library which made it easy for him to convert documents from Office format to RTF. After working with Ben Slivka's IE team in Seattle, he went back to his old company NCSA as part of their diversity program.

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