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by omgCPhuture 783 days ago
Windows 95 was only given a TCP/IP stack and "browser" because of Marc going public with it as company, although they copied theTCP/IP stackf rom FreeBSD and somehow managed to completely fsck it into a buggy mess. Internet Exporer source code is a trip worth reading for the developer folks' comments alone, man there is a lot of swearing in there.

Bill G insisted the internet and this web thing coming about was simply a fad till that happened.. Even children understood better as soon as they were let on to it. I should know, I was one, and it was so blatantly obvious, even to me and many of my childhood friends.

Gotta hand it to Mr. Marc Andreessen