Marc Andreessen
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Yeah, yeah.
Basically, it's just like... Better less than
Well, yeah.
Well, actually, this was actually the conscious thing, which basically says just, like, assume a future of infinite bandwidth, build for that.
And then basically what it was, it was a bet that if the latent capabilities of the system were powerful enough and that was obvious enough to people, that would create the demand for the bandwidth that would cause the supply of bandwidth to get built that would actually make the whole thing work.
And then specifically what we wanted was we wanted everything to be human readable because at the engineering level, we wanted people to be able to read the protocol coming over the wire and be able to understand it with their bare eyes without having to disassemble it or whatever, right?
And have it converted out of binary, right?
And so all the HTTP and everything else, it was always text protocols.
And the same thing with HTML.
And in many ways, some people say that the key breakthrough in the browser was the view source option, which is every web page you go to, you could view source, which means you could see how it worked, which means you could teach yourself how to build
to build new web pages.
There was that.
So human readability, and again, human readability in those days still meant technical specs.
Now it means English language, but there's an incredible latent power in giving everybody who uses the system the option to be able to drop down and actually understand and see how it's working.
And that worked really well for the web, and I think it's working really well for AI.
that was one um what was the other um a big part of the idea of web servers was to actually surface the underlying latent capability of the operating system and to be able to surface the also the underlying latent capability of the database because basically what was a web server what what is a web server fundamentally architecturally it's it's the operating system so it's the operating system's ability to you know it's running on top of an os so it's the os's ability to manage the file system and do everything else that you want to do process everything
And then, of course, a lot of websites are financed to databases.
And so you wanted to unleash the underlying latent power of whether it was an Oracle database or some other Postgres or whatever it was.
And so a lot of the function of the web server was to just bridge from that internet connection coming in to be able to unlock the underlying power of the OS and the database.
And again, people looked at it at the time, and they were like, well, does this really matter?
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