Editing Marc Andreessen (section)

== Early life and education ==
Andreessen was born in [[Cedar Falls, Iowa]], and raised in [[New Lisbon, Wisconsin]].<ref name="simonebio">Simone Payment, ''Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape'', The Rosen Publishing Group, 2006, p. 15. {{ISBN|978-1-4042-0719-6}}.</ref> He is the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zyIvOn7sKCsC&pg=PA15 |title=Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape|first=Simone|last=Payment|via=[[Google Books]]|date= August 15, 2006|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |access-date=July 9, 2013|isbn=9781404207196}}</ref> In December 1993,<ref name="simonebio" /> he received his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[computer science]] from the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] (UIUC).<ref>{{cite web|title=MARC L. ANDREESSEN|url=http://engineering.illinois.edu/engage/distinguished-alumni-and-friends/hall-of-fame/2010/marc-andreessen|website=ENGINEERING AT ILLINOIS|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|access-date=March 31, 2017}}</ref>  As an undergraduate, he interned twice at [[IBM]] in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/marc-andreessen-on-the-future-of-the-enterprise/|title=Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise |author=Alexia Tsotsis|publisher=[[TechCrunch]]|date=January 28, 2013}}</ref> He worked in the AIX graphics software development group responsible for the MIT [[X Window System|X]] implementation and ports of the 3D language APIs:  SGI's Graphics Language (GL) and PHIGS.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}  He also worked at the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with [[Tim Berners-Lee]]'s open standards for the [[World Wide Web]].  After being shown the [[ViolaWWW]] graphic web browser in late 1992, Andreessen and full-time salaried co-worker [[Eric Bina]] worked on creating a browser with integrated graphics that could be ported to a wide range of computers, including Windows. The result was the Mosaic web browser released in 1993.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Calore |first=Michael |title=April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color, Creativity |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0422mosaic-web-browser/ |access-date=2023-09-23 |issn=1059-1028 |archive-date=April 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424075919/https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0422mosaic-web-browser/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{blockquote|In the Web's first generation, Tim Berners-Lee launched the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and HTML standards with prototype Unix-based servers and browsers. A few people noticed that the Web might be better than [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]]. In the second generation, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina developed NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois. Several million then suddenly noticed that the Web might be better than sex.| [[Bob Metcalfe]], ''InfoWorld'', August 21, 1995, Vol. 17, Issue 34.<ref name="Web">[http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4  Roads and Crossroads of Internet History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206040430/http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4 |date=February 6, 2015 }}  Chapter 4: Birth of the Web</ref>}}