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> I can't help but think Andreesen's gone off the deep end a bit The first time I heard of him was in 2016: https://www.fastcompany.com/3056581/marc-andreessen
by unmole 4y ago
> I can't help but think Andreesen's gone off the deep end a bit
The first time I heard of him was in 2016: https://www.fastcompany.com/3056581/marc-andreessen-riles-up-twitter-after-defending-colonialism-in-india https://www.fastcompany.com/3056581/marc-andreessen-riles-up...
As far as I'm concerned, he's always been kooky.
- kragen 4y agohe led the mosaic project at ncsa, creating the first web browser most people today would recognize as a browser, with things like images mixed in with text then he went off and founded netscape, creating the dot-com boom since then he's mostly been running a successful vc firm so yeah he's always been 'kooky'
- afunctionof 4y agoCopying comment from earlier thread because I sent it two days after thread: You should add your Matrix to your contact page. Edit: Also, is there going to be another der* release this year? They and therefore you have taught me more than I'd learned in the last five years otherwise.
- kragen 4y agowow, that's astonishing and wonderful to hear, thank you i hope the things you learned from them were mostly true i was planning to do one in december but i felt like i didn't have much material because i had a pretty unproductive year in 02022, and i'm increasingly dissatisfied with the medium you're right about matrix
- unmole 4y agoIs there some definition of kooky that precludes someone from being brilliant?
- kragen 4y agoi don't think you can be brilliant without being kooky; if all you know is consensus reality you can never reach any conclusions before consensus reality does
- theGnuMe 4y agoThe history of Mosaic is interesting! https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/project-highlights/ncsa-mosaic/ https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/project-highlights/nc...