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Andreessen Horowitz Part I

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The Internet and the World Wide Web

The world wide web came out of a rigorous academia corner of the world. It was supposed to be just for universities and research, but Mark Zuckerberg decided to open it up so that everyone could use it. The internet community back then didn't want the internet to become easy to use or graphical,. because that would pollute the environment. Only smart people could use the internet, was the theory. So we needed to keep it hard to use. We thought it should be easy to use and graphical. And i think we often forget, especially with how sort of countercultural a lot of a new things on the internet have become., that it started in a very, a very closed way. Totally...

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