Internet History Podcast 5. Netscape and Mosaic Founding Engineer, Lou Montulli
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Mar 6, 2014 AI Snips
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Browser As The Core Strategy
- Netscape's founding plan focused squarely on building a fast, stable consumer browser from day one.
- They chose a razor-and-blades model: give the client free and monetize server software and services.
Ship By Debate And Iterate
- Let the best technical ideas surface through open, collaborative debate rather than heavy process.
- Move quickly from consensus to implementation and iterate with engineers doing the coding.
Building Cross-Platform Networking
- Lou owned cross-platform networking, history, caching and settings across many OS ports, while others handled UI and the HTML parser.
- Netscape supported dozens of platform builds, so much shared low-level code lived in his area.