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Early Life and Interests
- Marc Andreessen, born in Iowa and raised in Wisconsin, showed early interest in computers, teaching himself BASIC at age nine.
- Despite programming throughout school, his main interests were English and philosophy, claiming he chose computer science for its minimal workload.
NCSA and Early Web Exposure
- Andreessen worked at the NCSA, not driven by grand ambitions, but as an hourly worker coding for a 3D visualization project.
- His position at the NCSA, with its fast internet connection and access to the web, placed him perfectly to witness and contribute to the web's evolution.
Making the Web Accessible
- The early web, primarily text-based and Unix-based, was inaccessible to most computer users.
- Andreessen's key insight was to make the web more user-friendly, paving the way for mainstream adoption.