![]() (Not that Dorner appeared to mind: “To have other people use and enjoy your program is probably what a certain breed of programmer is really interested in,” he told the news outlet at the time. Of the early protocols that ruled the ‘net, the web and email were the two most important ones-and UIUC was a proving ground for both.īut the Times only showed up at Dorner’s door for a piece about why he had failed to become a multi-millionaire for what he created-which one could say is a backhanded compliment of an article. In contrast, Eudora maker Steve Dorner created an incredibly popular program, loved by power users at a time when power users owned the internet. Netscape, of course, helped its creator, Marc Andreessen, eventually become a billionaire, and drove a Silicon Valley boom that we’re still seeing some reverberations of to this day-in part because Andreessen leveraged his financial success into further financial success and later, a plum role as a venture capitalist. The other, Eudora, put a graphical twist on email. One of those applications, Netscape, became a bedrock of how we surf the web. In early 1997, two applications were in the process of taking over the internet, and both had roots in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was a contrast that was too delicious for The New York Times to ignore. ![]() ( via Amazon) Eudora was a success story, but not one that made its creator rich Join the ten million other Eudora users, the box says.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |