Marc Andreessen: Web Warrior

By Daniel Ehrenhaft

Computer geniuses who've made it big are the ultimate heroes for many kids. These young millionaires in the high-tech and business worlds are big news today, but like all inventors before them, their work is based on the work of their predecessors.On August 9, 1995, Marc Andreessen's personal net worth skyrocketed from a few thousand dollars to over $58 million. As one of the founders of Netscape, Andreesson led a revolution that has changed the way people communicate with one another and transformed the Internet into the fastest-growing communications network in human history.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761319646
• ISBN13: 9780761319641
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

also a history of the Web's first decade

This book is part of an interesting little series that tries to teach or motivate primary schoolers about technology. So that they can make sense of recent events and maybe even one day be attracted to working in a technology job. Here the book describes Marc Andreesson, who wrote the first public browser, Mosaic. I suspect that the average reader of the book will not have heard of Mosaic, since it was quickly overtaken by newer browsers. Still, the book then goes on to describe how Andreesson went to co-found Netscape with Jim Clark of Silicon Graphics, and the browser wars with Microsoft in the late 90s. In some ways, this book is also a history of the first decade of the Web. The story of Andreesson is intimately tied with the Web's early and spectacular growth.