"In 1994, Barksdale had to resign from AT&T to accept an offer from Clark to be Netscape's CEO. Barksdale flew to New Jersey to tell AT&T's then-CEO, Robert Allen.
"Bob Allen told me I was nuts," Barksdale recalls. Three years later, Allen resigned, his company flailing. Dozens of big-name, big-company executives followed Barksdale's path to Internet companies."
...Andreessen, now 31, needs only a second to think of what surprised him most in a decade of megachange. "EBay," he says. "Who knew there was that much crap in people's garages to sell?"
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creative craig
5:19 pm on Mar 10, 2003 (gmt 0)
I can only look back 5, I feel so young!
rcjordan
5:55 pm on Mar 10, 2003 (gmt 0)
My first 4 .coms were registered in '95 and, get this, they were free. That was in the Mosaic Era.