Bill Gates

Meanwhile, it's hilarious that we keep talking about the information superhighway because it never happened. There were these little tests done with cable companies that would wire up 300 houses or something, but it never happened anywhere at any sort of scale.

Meanwhile, it's hilarious that we keep talking about the information superhighway because it never happened. There were these little tests done with cable companies that would wire up 300 houses or something, but it never happened anywhere at any sort of scale.

And so when you're listening to this and you keep trying to figure out like, sorry, what exactly was the information superhighway and like, what did it look like? Nobody knows because it never happened.

And so when you're listening to this and you keep trying to figure out like, sorry, what exactly was the information superhighway and like, what did it look like? Nobody knows because it never happened.

And the fact that even Mark himself didn't pound the table for, no, the internet's going to be the thing, that really shows you how the human brain is not wired to understand compounding. theoretically, this network should continue to get more nodes. The technology should evolve little by little. Moore's law is happening on the compute side.

And the fact that even Mark himself didn't pound the table for, no, the internet's going to be the thing, that really shows you how the human brain is not wired to understand compounding. theoretically, this network should continue to get more nodes. The technology should evolve little by little. Moore's law is happening on the compute side.

You know, there's some reason to think that bandwidth is going to be available to homes in the same way it's available to like universities and companies. But still, it just wasn't obvious enough to continue down that path. It was almost like, great, I've made a name for myself doing this toy thing that probably isn't the future.

You know, there's some reason to think that bandwidth is going to be available to homes in the same way it's available to like universities and companies. But still, it just wasn't obvious enough to continue down that path. It was almost like, great, I've made a name for myself doing this toy thing that probably isn't the future.

And so now we'll go do the big boy stuff because that's what all the experts are saying.

And so now we'll go do the big boy stuff because that's what all the experts are saying.

Great. And listeners, you should be paying attention to something David just said there. He said it's the Mosaic Corporation, and then you said it's Mosaic Navigator. Even though it's called Mosaic, because Marc Andreessen wanted to draft off the success of the previous project he had done called Mosaic, this is completely new code. They founded a company. They started writing code from scratch.

Great. And listeners, you should be paying attention to something David just said there. He said it's the Mosaic Corporation, and then you said it's Mosaic Navigator. Even though it's called Mosaic, because Marc Andreessen wanted to draft off the success of the previous project he had done called Mosaic, this is completely new code. They founded a company. They started writing code from scratch.

They had the experience of writing Mosaic, the thing owned by the university and the NCSA before. This is a new thing called Mosaic that does the same thing, architected for commercial use.

They had the experience of writing Mosaic, the thing owned by the university and the NCSA before. This is a new thing called Mosaic that does the same thing, architected for commercial use.

It's a pile of code, millions of users. Mark doesn't work there anymore, but it seems to be working.

It's a pile of code, millions of users. Mark doesn't work there anymore, but it seems to be working.

So the state of play is you've got the old Mosaic, which Spyglass has the right to license for commercial use. You have a new thing that will become Netscape called Mosaic that is totally separate code. And Mosaic, Marc Andreessen's new Mosaic, keeps trying to go do deals, like sell their server software. And every time they'd find a customer, Spyglass, they'd threaten to sue.

So the state of play is you've got the old Mosaic, which Spyglass has the right to license for commercial use. You have a new thing that will become Netscape called Mosaic that is totally separate code. And Mosaic, Marc Andreessen's new Mosaic, keeps trying to go do deals, like sell their server software. And every time they'd find a customer, Spyglass, they'd threaten to sue.

And they basically blow up the deal because they keep calling each customer and saying, yeah, we're going to sue. Yep. Yep. And so this is obviously very frustrating and technically illegal. Mark Andreessen's Mosaic realizes that this is going to be a existential problem for them unless they do something about it. They actually sue Spyglass. You guys got to stop. So there is a settlement.

And they basically blow up the deal because they keep calling each customer and saying, yeah, we're going to sue. Yep. Yep. And so this is obviously very frustrating and technically illegal. Mark Andreessen's Mosaic realizes that this is going to be a existential problem for them unless they do something about it. They actually sue Spyglass. You guys got to stop. So there is a settlement.