Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Rogan Sucks Up Rich Guy’s BS Like It’s Dumb Juice" video.

  1. I AM LIKE Marc Andreessen in that I am ALSO an engineering graduate (aerospace) of the University of Illinois. I graduated the year before Marc Andreessen started his degree in computer science. So I never met him BUT I DO KNOW the environment into which he was able to develop his skills. In the late 80s UIUC was the World Center of Computing. Cray Supercomputers had moved the head quarters to Champaign and UIUC had NOT 1 but 3 Cray Supercomputers at that time. It was also heavily funded by both the Illinois State and the US Federal Government. UIUC hosted the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). On top of that UIUC hosted the core of the PLATO System which was a forerunner of the Internet. We also had rooms full of Apple, IBM and other desk tops we could just use however we wanted AND THAT'S the SHORT story. So for anyone doing a degree in computer science it was one of the best places you could be AND AT THE RIGHT TIME. When I was there the Plato system was a text based system which you are all lucky to have never used. So they was an opportunity to make this awful system look like and be user friendly like the Apple Macs we used to do our term papers on. Marc Andreessen stepped into that opportunity and developed (along with Eric Bina) the Mosaic program which was the first practical web browser. They renamed it Netscape and eventually sold it to AOL for $4.3 Billion. I do not begrudge Marc Andreessen for his success or wealth. He had an opportunity and made it work and with it helped to make the Internet function. WHAT I OBJECT to are his public stances on funding education. He got what he got because the State of Illinois and the US Federal Government FUNDED the university where he got that opportunity. So for him to come out and denigrate the US Federal Government as he often does is INCREDIBLY NARCISSISTIC and UNGRATEFUL. Marc Andreessen has what he has because the American people helped to fund his opportunity. To try try and deny similar opportunities going to others is disgusting.
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