5. Netscape and Mosaic Founding Engineer, Lou Montulli
Internet History Podcast
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How to Create a Web Browser That Works
i was the weird one because i was doing a little bit of a hand in both i was doing all the cross-platform networking code and back end databases. So you think about there was essentially three parts to each uh browser so they all looked like a lot of different browsers in some ways. We're recreating a new web browser from scratch but along with our principles by the way was that an edict that you know we can't use any of the old mosaic code we've got to do everything completely from the ground up absolutelyYes the idea was to to sell this thing so we needed to create something that wouldn't be encumbered by any any other copyright or commercial problem so made sure
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