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What a circle jerk. I guess there aren’t successful people with any humility. But seriously, he just used his own podcast to feature himself!

>>smokef+(OP)
It's interesting history though - I grew up and was using computers in this period (from 300 baud acoustic couplers and ARPANet, to 14.4K modems and BBSs, then eventually the web (Sun workstation and broadband at work, dial-up at home), but was not aware of all the history myself. The invention of the web was a seminal moment, regardless of what you think of Andreessen, and like he said it could have gone differently. The private networks (AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy) could have prevailed, but luckily the internet and open standards won the day.

>>HarHar+yK
Yeah, I mean I’m being negative but I enjoyed the video. I just found Ben’s whole line of questioning to be pandering and not a dialog (“why not MIT?”)

I had a similar experience with BBSs and I remember the romance of using a modem. I actually grew up in Champaign and recall dialing into “prairienet.” I also remember using AOL, but mostly to find and download games.