It was in the right part of the country, certainly - I fell in love with California the first time I came out here, in late 93, I think.

Even as late as '95, the Net was populated by early adopters, defense contractors, techies, and academics. It was completely unclear whether it would spread beyond that to consumers and business users.

So, then I met Jim Clark and we started talking about various things we could do and it made a lot of sense to try and do that in the context of a new company.

In the long term, I think it makes sense to start expanding the two-way communication mechanisms in the browser.

I think the types of networks that they're used to - companies - is an excellent indicator of where things are going to be going.

Congestion is only ever a problem if bandwidth is standing still.

The first alpha version came out in January of 1993, and the first beta version came out in March. But the real launch was in April 1993 when about 10,000 people started using Mosaic.

Startups are stressful, and Netscape was no different.

So, we'll support Secure HTTP, as well as whatever else emerges, but I do think it's important to understand that there aren't standards right now.