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Marc Andreessen - Footnote 12

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Last checked: 4/3/2026

The source does not mention that Andreessen and Bina worked 80-hour weeks. The source states that Andreessen was born in 1971 or 1972, so he would have been an undergraduate in 1993. The source states that Andreessen and Bina worked on the program for six weeks, not two months. The claim that the browser made the internet accessible to non-technical users for the first time is an overclaim.

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partial85%Haiku 4.5 · 4/3/2026
Found: In 1993, while still an undergraduate, Andreessen and programmer Eric Bina worked 80-hour weeks over two months to develop Mosaic, creating an interface that integrated text, graphics, and sound to na

Note: The source does not mention that Andreessen and Bina worked 80-hour weeks. The source states that Andreessen was born in 1971 or 1972, so he would have been an undergraduate in 1993. The source states that Andreessen and Bina worked on the program for six weeks, not two months. The claim that the browser made the internet accessible to non-technical users for the first time is an overclaim.

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