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bjbj NORTH CAMPUS # MARC ANDREESSEN AND ERIC BINA Marc Andreessen said he was 12 years
old when he first became interested in computer programming. He chose to pursue a degree in
computer science at Illinois and landed a job as a student-programmer at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications. Here he teamed with staff member Eric Bina in 1993.
Together they created the prototype for Mosaic, the first browser for the World Wide Web.
Mosaic was credited with enabling the Web to gain widespread popularity. It was called
the first "killer application." Upon graduation from Illinois, Andreessen went to work with
Enterprise Integration Technologies in California. Shortly thereafter he met Jim Clark from Silicon
Graphics who was interested in starting a new company. Andreessen, Clark, and Bina founded
Netscape in 1994. For several years, it was the dominant web browser. Bina and HYPERLINK
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen" \o "Marc Andreessen" Andreessen were awarded
the HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" \o "Association for Computing Machinery" Software
System Award in 1995. In the same year, the award was given to Tim Berners-Lee and Robert
Cailliau [KEYE-you] for creating the World Wide Web. America Online acquired Netscape,
and Andreessen became their Chief Technical Officer. He went on to found and lead several
other software companies. Eric Bina continues to live and work in the Champaign-Urbana area.
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