You’ll be able to have applications sitting there on your desktop that are talking to Netscape and are using it to do certain things, so I think that’s certainly a near-term route to pretty close integration. In the long term, I think it makes sense to start expanding the two-way communication mechanisms in the browser.
Predictor: Andreessen, Marc
Prediction, in context:Thom Stark conducted an interview with Marc Andreessen for his “Marc Andreessen Interview Page” in 1995. In the interview, Andreessen said: ”Mail support is interesting; IRC types of things are interesting. One of the things that I think could have a major impact in here is the types of APIs that we’re providing through mechanisms like OLE and DDE and AppleEvents. It’s going to be, I think, much more prevalent for external applications like IRC or Mail applications to be able to tie very seamlessly into Netscape’s front end. In fact, they’ll be able to use Netscape’s front end to go do retrievals over the network and, among the things that means is they’ll be able to use the Netscape front end to do secure retrievals over the network. You’ll be able to have applications sitting there on your desktop that are talking to Netscape and are using it to do certain things, so I think that’s certainly a near-term route to pretty close integration. In the long term, I think it makes sense to start expanding the two-way communication mechanisms in the browser.”
Biography:Marc Andreessen worked with Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992, to develop a browser that would be usable on any computer, easy to use and graphically rich. In 1993, their browser, Mosaic, completely changed the face of the Internet Ð it allowed HTML “image” tags which make it so text and art can appear on the same page; it allowed easy text scrolling; and it introduced hyperlinks, allowing users to simply click on an area of the screen to go to another document on the Internet. In1994, Mosaic was developed and marketed; the product eventually was named Netscape. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: E-mail
Title, headline, chapter name: The Marc Andreessen Interview Page
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://users.rcn.com/thomst/marca.html
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