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Marc Andreessen breaks down exactly what it was like to be on the internet before 1993, and his description feels almost impossible to imagine today. He describes those early days in purely utopian terms. Before the algorithms, the heavy monetization, and the endless commercial activity, the internet was basically...

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Marc Andreessen says AOL killed the early internet on a single day in September 1993. Before that day, the internet had maybe two million users. They were the smartest two million people in the world. Andreessen says it felt like Athens in 500 BC. "The most pure, clean, intellectual, vibrant space" since the Greeks. No advertising. No commerce. No spam. Just the smartest engineers, scientists, and academics talking to each other. Then America Online bought a connection to it. In September 1993, AOL pumped two million normal people directly onto the internet. It became known as **Eternal September**. Andreessen, who was building Mosaic at the time, watched it happen. "That's the day the internet changed." Pre-1993 internet veterans had a phrase. Every September, when the new freshmen got their college email accounts, the discussion forums would briefly drop in quality before stabilizing. After AOL connected, the September never ended. The smartest two million were swallowed by the next two million, then twenty million, then five billion. Andreessen, looking back: "I'm pro that. I'm glad that happened. But the pro and the con of that is that took the internet from this ivory tower kind of thing to this basically mainstream consumer ordinary people thing." Was AOL right to open the gates? If you're new here, GeniusThinking is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. P.S. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: — Marc Andreessen ( Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( David Senra ) podcast

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Marc Andreessen reveals one of the wildest sliding doors moments in tech history. In 1994, he almost pulled the trigger on building an online gaming service for the Nintendo 64. He was essentially planning to build Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network years before they existed. They decided it was too early and walked away. But the real reason they pivoted? The internet just kept growing. Instead of revolutionizing console gaming, his team focused on a college project called Mosaic. At the time, the internet was not viewed as a consumer phenomenon at all. The web existed as a nascent concept, but it was limited to clunky, text-based terminals. There were no graphics, no point-and-click capabilities, no scripting languages, and absolutely no security. It lacked the actual capabilities that make a browser a useful tool for the public. Andreessen and his group at Illinois completely changed the trajectory of technology. They built the first widely used web browser with graphics, turning that early text-based concept into the full, capable software experience we know today. To support it, they also built the first mainstream web server that had everything everyday people needed to actually get online. It is incredible to look back and realize that the foundation of the modern visual web was just a college project that almost took a backseat to a Nintendo 64 online network. Ft: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 David Senra

Ian Miles Cheong

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Marc Andreessen: Revolutionary technologies were often viewed as “trivialities” or “jokes” “If you read history, the great innovations of the past are now well understood as being very important. In almost every case, they were not widely understood as such at the time. In fact, I would assert that they were often actually viewed as trivialities or jokes.” He gives three examples: 1. The telephone. “When Thomas Edison was first working on the telephone, the assumption of the use case motivating his early work was the idea that telegraph operators needed to be able to talk to each other. It was considered implausible that you would have a system that would let any ordinary person pick up the telephone and talk to another person - that was clearly impossible… Completely missing the larger opportunity.” 2. The Internet. “I have personal experience with this one. The Internet was laughed at. It was heaped with scorn from 1993 to 1997-98. In fact, those of you who were in the industry at the time will remember the New York Times had a reporter on staff named Peter Lewis… I’m convinced he was specifically hired by the editors to just write negative stories about the Internet. It was all he did, and it was always the Internet was never going to be a consumer medium. The Internet is not nearly as big as these people think. Nobody is ever going to trust the internet for e-commerce.” 3. The car. “The car was absolutely viewed as a triviality and a toy when it first emerged. In fact, J.P. Morgan himself refused to invest in Ford Motor Company with the response that it’s just a toy for rich people, which is in fact what it was at the time. If you had one of the first cars, you had to be a rich person. You had to have a driver. You often actually had to also have a stoker with your early cars to keep the engine going. And then you also had to travel with a full-time mechanic because the thing would break down every three miles.” Marc concludes: “The great innovations of the present, I believe, are virtually guaranteed to be viewed as trivial and to be viewed as jokes. I think history 50 to 100 years from now will enshroud them in legend. In our time, they won’t be recognized as such. Of course, in the future, when they become legends, our descendants will themselves have their own trivial innovations to laugh at.” Video source: Milken Institute (2013)

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Marc Andreessen: Revolutionary technologies were often viewed as “trivialities” or “jokes” “If you read history, the great innovations of the past are now well understood as being very important. In almost every case, they were not widely understood as such at the time. In fact, I would assert that they were often actually viewed as trivialities or jokes.” He gives three examples: 1. The telephone. “When Thomas Edison was first working on the telephone, the assumption of the use case motivating his early work was the idea that telegraph operators needed to be able to talk to each other. It was considered implausible that you would have a system that would let any ordinary person pick up the telephone and talk to another person - that was clearly impossible… Completely missing the larger opportunity.” 2. The Internet. “I have personal experience with this one. The Internet was laughed at. It was heaped with scorn from 1993 to 1997-98. In fact, those of you who were in the industry at the time will remember the New York Times had a reporter on staff named Peter Lewis… I’m convinced he was specifically hired by the editors to just write negative stories about the Internet. It was all he did, and it was always the Internet was never going to be a consumer medium. The Internet is not nearly as big as these people think. Nobody is ever going to trust the internet for e-commerce.” 3. The car. “The car was absolutely viewed as a triviality and a toy when it first emerged. In fact, J.P. Morgan himself refused to invest in Ford Motor Company with the response that it’s just a toy for rich people, which is in fact what it was at the time. If you had one of the first cars, you had to be a rich person. You had to have a driver. You often actually had to also have a stroker with your early cars to keep the engine going. And then you also had to travel with a full-time mechanic because the thing would break down every three miles.” Marc concludes: “The great innovations of the present, I believe, are virtually guaranteed to be viewed as trivial and to be viewed as jokes. I think history 50 to 100 years from now will enshroud them in legend. In our time, they won’t be recognized as such. Of course, in the future, when they become legends, our descendants will themselves have their own trivial innovations to laugh at.” Video Source: Milken Institute

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.DHH credits Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with helping him the most during the darkest time of his professional life: "It was during that rough going where Andreessen came in. We were a small company of 60 people and 20 took the offer and left. That's almost a third of the company that decided to leave and we got to a point where we were thinking that not many more have to leave before we need to worry about whether we can keep the lights on. And it was actually Tobi who then put me in contact with Marc Andreessen because Marc had been exposed to this phenomenon at some of his portfolio companies. And Marc gave us reassurance and a bunch of contacts. Marc said, "Do you need someone to come in to help do programming or help with operations or whatever?" And I was floored by the generosity because Marc and I haven't always seen eye to eye on things. Especially in terms of venture capital. He's been one of the main faces of venture capital for decades and I've been kind of critical at times. And it was just a realization that all those grievances we might have thought to be so big once upon a time were actually minuscule. We were fighting the white walkers on the other side of the wall and all our internal squabbles were going to be for nothing if those f*ckers got inside the wall and destroyed everything. And that felt like a real threat at the time. That could've happened. They could very well have just ripped the whole thing apart. And Marc clearly saw that that this was a collective, almost existential threat to the entire industry. If these activists were able to take over these institutions in the same way that they have taken over academia we would be f*cked and not just for a little while but potentially for decades. That couldn't stand. And Marc was incredibly helpful not just in terms of these contacts and introductions and so on but it was very powerful. When you have literally 40,000 people on Twitter calling you all the worst things in the world even the strongest individual might go for a second like "Holy sh*t. The mob is coming for me and there's no one else there." And there are other people there. Tobi was there. Marc was there. And it was incredibly helpful to give us the fortitude to go like "No do you know what? We're going to stick with it. We're not going to grovel. We're not going to apologize. We're not going to revert." And then what Marc also did was he gave me a syllabus for understanding the history of wokeness going all the way back to the '60s and beyond. That this didn't just come as lightning from a blue sky. This had an institutional grounding that was set in motion particularly in the '60s and the long march through the institutions, Herbert Marcuse and a lot of The Frankfurt School and all of these groups that had designs on how to reshape society and create the revolution they so dearly wanted, but with a timeline and a roadmap that was demarcated in decades. That it wasn't just like "Well we're going to put something together and then in two years something's going to happen." No they were sitting in the fucking '60s fantasizing about how to overthrow everything in the 2000s. It's actually incredible in a Dr. Evil sense of it but when you're on the receiving end of it it seemed a little less incredible and it was just difficult not knowing where's this coming from? Why is this happening all of a sudden? Well it wasn't happening all of a sudden. There was this long history of it and when you understood that history it made a lot more sense. We weren't just making a rejection for our little corner of the world. We were chipping in in the great civilizational battle of where this country was going to go, whether the white walkers beyond the wall were going to win. And we were like "No they're not going to f*cking win. Get them out of that f*cking wall. Take your goddamn spear and fire it with maximum velocity."

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From Dan Lorenc on the malware attack that almost took down the entire internet last year: “There’s a popular compression library that’s used in almost every piece of software. And it had been maintained by one person in his spare time for the last 20 years. And then a couple years ago, somebody just decided to start helping him. They jumped in, fixed a bunch of bugs, and did a lot of great work. And then that first person got tired of working on it. So he handed the whole project over to this other person. It turned out that other person was just a pseudonym and was not a real person. And within six months of getting control of the project, they had put in a carefully orchestrated set of malware that was really hard to detect and no one noticed. And because it was so widely used, the exploit would've basically given that person remote access to any computer running that piece of software, which was basically everything connected to the Internet. But because it was open source and the code was transparent, some random engineer just happened to be running some benchmarks on a weekend. And he noticed that program was a little bit slower than it used to be, and that it was making a weird cryptographic operation to check something. And right before this thing got widely deployed across every device, he dug in, and discovered that there was a backdoor put in. This was the closest thing to a full-blown internet crisis that we’ve ever had. And they still have no idea who did it. It was just an anonymous email account. No one ever traced it back to an individual. And that's the long game. This person spent years just doing good work and earning the communities trust.”

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The full story of NASA's Apollo 1 and Gus Grissom, the man who was originally planned to be the first human to "walk on the moon" In short, Grissom and the Apollo 1 crew were not getting with the program NASA had planned... They—especially Grissom—were highly critical of NASA and the Space Program, constantly pushing concerns up the chain of command, warning about major equipment failures, safety issues, and overall exposing that there was zero chance the rocket & Lunar Lander NASA was building would be able to fly through space and land on the moon. But nothing was ever fixed because NASA already knew they weren't actually going to the moon...the astronauts had yet to be told the mission was going to be staged. Frustrated, Gus held an unauthorized press conference exposing the shortcomings and failures of the Apollo Program. You can imagine how Pentagon generals reacted seeing their top astronaut tell the entire world-their rocket was a lemon (worthless) 🍋 Five days later, Gus and his crew were burned alive during a so-called "test"... Crazy enough, in 1967 alone, seven astronauts died in a series of "coincidental" & tragic accidents. In fact, another death from Apollo 1 was Thomas Baron, a safety inspector during its construction. After the fire, he testified before Congress that the Apollo program was in such disarray the US would never make it to the moon. And he said those statements made him a target. Baron had submitted a 500-page report on his findings and was on the verge of shutting down the entire program. But just a week later, his car was struck by a train, killing him, his wife, and stepdaughter instantly. The Grissom family had fought tirelessly trying to get answers on his death, and to this day they believe it was no accident, but an intentional hit to silence him before he could expose the NASA "space travel" fraud to the world. It doesn't take a genius to realize these men didn't die in the name of "technological advancement" like we were sold. They were silenced to stop a truth powerful enough to awaken humanity from its hypnosis. h/t Electric

₿en Wehrman

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According to Roy Scheider, "Filming 'Sorcerer' (1977) made 'Jaws' (1975) look like a picnic". He considered the Bridge scene to be the most dangerous he has ever acted in. The scene was so real that he said, "What the audience will see on that screen is what really happened." Building the bridge cost about a million dollars. It took 3 months to complete. Friedkin called it "A mad enterprise and definitely life threatening". The bridge was built on what they considered to be a "perfect river" in Dominican Republic. It was 12 feet deep. However, there were weeks without rainfall and the level of the river started dropping. The river has never went dry before according to the locals. When the bridge was completed, the river had only 1 feet of water making it impossible to film the scene there. With only 2 scenes left to film, the crew had to leave for Mexico to shoot the bridge scene. So they decided to shoot the scene in a river in an Aztec village in a remote location in Mexico. The Bridge had to be reassembled and anchored in the new location. The shutdown of production had lasted a month which was a huge expense to the management. When the crew arrived at the village, there was a huge exodus of the local population. When Friedkin enquired, he was informed by one of the authorities that it was because of word of William Friedkin's arrival. They were a deeply religious people, and when they heard the man who made "The Exorcist" (1973) was coming to their village: they felt it was "bad karma". But few of the locals stayed and helped with the filming. Before arriving, Friedkin was informed that it rained often in the area, but didn't know that it was only in the summer season. Since it was the fall, there was no rain and the river began to drop at the rate of six inches or more a day. The water was diverted to the location of the bridge in the river using large pipes and pumping equipment. Since Friedkin wanted to shoot the scene in the rain, they brought in half a dozen large sprinklers that drew water from upriver. The scene runs twelve minutes, roughly 10 percent of the final cut, but it took months to complete and cost more than $3 million, most of it not budgeted. ("The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir", William Friedkin, 2013 & Roy Scheider's interview to the The New York Times, 1977) P.S: On this day, 49 years ago, "Sorcerer" (1977) was released in the USA.

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