Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "'Free Speech' Grifter Shares Oligarch's Demonic Vision For America's Future" video.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GRADUATE HERE which is the same college Andreessen did his degree at. I graduated in aerospace engineering the year before (88) that Andreessen started there (89). What he is NOT explaining well is HOW LUCKY he was to be there at that time. When I was there the PC desk top industry was just getting started and those companies were dumping truck loads of stuff on us. My department one day got a couple of dozen AT&T desktops with UNIX operating systems. We had 2 rooms full of Apple McIntosh's with this thing call a GUI (graphic user interface) and a mouse. We did all our term papers on them. The really cool kids doing PhDs got a CRAY-2 Supercomputer to dop aerodynamic simulations on. Then they got a CRAY-XMP64 to do even bigger more complex simulations on. Then CRAY moved to Champaign because the US Government set up the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). On top of all that there was one of the Worlds first wide area network & data base systems called Plato. It was a precursor to what you all call the Internet. Its was ghastly and horrible to use in my time. By Andreessen's time it was obvious that for wide area networks to become viable they had to become user friendly. There were several teams working on that and through GOOD LUCK Andreessen and the team he was on developed Mosaic the precursor to NetScape. You can read about this on his Wikipedia page. HERE'S THE POINT Like all the tech bro-billionaires we know about these days Andreessen is JUST LUCKY. He was in the right place at the right time and got the right breaks and his product prevailed in a competitive marketplace. Suckerberg is the same he wasn't the only person developing social media. Musk and Thiel are the same they weren't the only people working on secure internet transactions. ALL OF THEM got lucky breaks that enabled their pet project to thrive and these days NONE OF THEM respect any of the work others did that made their work possible in the first place. That's what I hate about them. They just have no respect for the rest of the STEM professions or the people who work in them.
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