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Also, NCSA was started with NSF funds and the put out the first web browse. And now the guy behind that is supporting Trump. Really pulling up the ladder.

• mturk 1y ago
  Larry Smarr recently spoke at NCSA and they wrote up a fair bit about the history of the institution: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/homecoming/ https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/homecoming/ It has links to some of the panel reports that led to the founding of NCSA, but the OSTI website has been having intermittent 502s for me this morning. The original "black proposal" was online on the NCSA website, but seems to have been missed in a website reorg; wayback has it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161017190452/http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/20years/timeline/documents/blackproposal.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20161017190452/http://www.ncsa.i... . It's absolutely fascinating reading, over 40 years later.
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  • dekhn 1y ago
    He means Andreesen, obviously.
    • throwanem 1y ago
      Or he could mean Marc Andreesen. In my defense, I haven't been taking that guy seriously for a long time now. Some of his friends, yes. But an embarrassing omission all the same.
  • ojbyrne 1y ago
    I would guess he means Marc Andreesen.
  • tootie 1y ago
    Marc Andreesen