Remember the time he went walking with Mark Zuckerberg and Zuck says I know you did something famous back in the day, what exactly was it? Answer: I'm the father of the browser.
He had a career before Netscape, he wrote the Mosaic browser for the Mac and Windows while he was still a student at the University of Illinois. After having to install tcp/ip on my Windows machine (Trumpet Winsock) that is the first browser that I used, perhaps a week(?) after it launched.
Interestingly after getting into a spat when he wanted to use the Mosaic name with his new company his alma mater licensed the code to Bill Gates so he could quickly launch Internet Explorer 1.0 and use it to destroy Netscape. So he really is the father of the modern browser.
Netscape's web server was also a pioneer...offering the first well defined way (NSAPI) to avoid the fork and exit slowness of CGI. Was Rob McCool's work, but during Andreessen's tenure.
He had a career before Netscape, he wrote the Mosaic browser for the Mac and Windows while he was still a student at the University of Illinois. After having to install tcp/ip on my Windows machine (Trumpet Winsock) that is the first browser that I used, perhaps a week(?) after it launched.
Interestingly after getting into a spat when he wanted to use the Mosaic name with his new company his alma mater licensed the code to Bill Gates so he could quickly launch Internet Explorer 1.0 and use it to destroy Netscape. So he really is the father of the modern browser.