1 00:00:00,012 --> 00:00:06,205 Triggered mostly by the release of the Windows and the Mac version of Mosaic. 2 00:00:06,205 --> 00:00:12,287 1994 was distinctly different than 1993. The staff at NCSA went and founded 3 00:00:12,287 --> 00:00:17,407 Netscape in April 1994. The first World Wide Web Conference was 4 00:00:17,407 --> 00:00:22,431 held in Switzerland. Shortly thereafter, the other first World 5 00:00:22,431 --> 00:00:28,953 Wide Web conference was held in Chicago. There's some interesting stuff about that 6 00:00:28,953 --> 00:00:30,858 in these books. [laugh]. 7 00:00:30,858 --> 00:00:37,083 The books Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee talks a little bit about that, 8 00:00:37,083 --> 00:00:38,704 In October, 1994 Tim left CERN and went to form the World Wide Web Consortium. 9 00:00:38,704 --> 00:00:45,256 And then by the end of the year, Windows 95 Beta 2 with an Internet browser was 10 00:00:45,256 --> 00:00:52,120 there, with TC-PI built in and so if you really think about, I mean it's not even a 11 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:58,161 whole year, it's almost six months where the world changed forever. 12 00:00:58,161 --> 00:01:01,955 And so, at this point, now money is coming into it. 13 00:01:01,955 --> 00:01:07,835 Up to that point, it was mostly ideas and research, but now money is coming in and 14 00:01:07,835 --> 00:01:12,773 we start seeing a transition. So Netscape was on the forefront of doing 15 00:01:12,773 --> 00:01:17,999 this, and Netscape, basically took the OpenSource product, they started kind of 16 00:01:17,999 --> 00:01:22,887 competing just to build a browser. But they quickly decided that they would 17 00:01:22,887 --> 00:01:27,661 go turn the browser and their web server more proprietary and try to create 18 00:01:27,661 --> 00:01:33,128 distributed computing applications using proprietary things that Netscape would 19 00:01:33,128 --> 00:01:37,209 build unique to themselves, and they would attack Microsoft. 20 00:01:37,209 --> 00:01:41,887 The moment it became clear that Netscape was going to produce a way, to, to, to 21 00:01:41,887 --> 00:01:46,413 develop software on Mac, Windows, and Linux portably, then Microsoft got 22 00:01:46,413 --> 00:01:49,286 worried. Because then, the operating system 23 00:01:49,286 --> 00:01:54,254 wouldn't matter, and Window, Microsoft had put so much into the Windows operating 24 00:01:54,254 --> 00:01:58,430 system, that if the operating system didn't matter, it would really, 25 00:01:58,430 --> 00:02:03,110 tremendously threaten Microsoft's business, hence Windows 95, with TCP/IP 26 00:02:03,110 --> 00:02:06,306 and a free web browser. So, Netscape sort of scared. 27 00:02:06,306 --> 00:02:12,181 Now, as Microsoft tried to buy Netscape, Netscape refused to sell, wanting more 28 00:02:12,181 --> 00:02:15,686 money. And then, Microsoft vowed to destroy it. 29 00:02:15,686 --> 00:02:21,217 And as Microsoft was coming after Netscape, first, Netscape tried to compete 30 00:02:21,217 --> 00:02:27,422 by building better and better software, like the JavaScript language, which we'll 31 00:02:27,422 --> 00:02:31,769 meet Brendan Eich in a moment. And after that they tried to sort of 32 00:02:31,769 --> 00:02:36,665 switch from being the proprietary bad guys and go become more the OpenSource good 33 00:02:36,665 --> 00:02:39,242 guys. And that kind of blew up in their face and 34 00:02:39,242 --> 00:02:43,987 they built this OpenSource Mozilla, which eventually became the Mozilla Foundation, 35 00:02:43,987 --> 00:02:47,842 which eventually begat Firefox. So now, what I want to do, is I want to, 36 00:02:47,842 --> 00:02:52,198 you to meet two people, both of whom now are the senior leadership at the Mozilla 37 00:02:52,198 --> 00:02:55,518 Foundation. Brendan Eich , is the CTO of the Mozilla 38 00:02:55,518 --> 00:03:00,666 Foundation, but he'll really tell us about Now[COUGH] 1995, where he invented 39 00:03:00,666 --> 00:03:03,551 JavaScript in ten days as part of Netscape. 40 00:03:03,551 --> 00:03:09,857 And then we'll meet Mitchell Baker, who was the founder of, of one of the founders 41 00:03:09,857 --> 00:03:13,769 of Mozilla. And she will talk about how Netscape kind 42 00:03:13,769 --> 00:03:19,699 of, fortunes declined, got purchased by AOL, and fortunes declined even worse. 43 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:25,681 And how they basically pulled the Netscape codebase out to form the Mozilla codebase, 44 00:03:25,681 --> 00:03:31,454 which then became Firefox codebase. And the Firefox, of course, had this great 45 00:03:31,454 --> 00:03:36,217 idea, that Mitchell will tell you about, of having a search box. 46 00:03:36,217 --> 00:03:41,291 And they made tons and tons of money, as Mitchell will tell you about. 47 00:03:41,291 --> 00:03:46,865 So, up next, Brendan Eich of the Mozilla Foundation and Mitchell Baker of the 48 00:03:46,865 --> 00:03:48,484 Mozilla Foundation.