Netscape, of course, changed the world. It was the first
dot-com IPO when the profit-free company went public in
1995, marking Year Zero for the ongoing Net frenzy that has
turned the financial markets upside down. All, according to
Lewis, so that Clark, son of Texas poverty, could build a
computer-controlled sailboat with the world's largest mast
(need we say more?). Netscape also scared Microsoft into
behaving so badly that it's been labeled a bully by a federal
judge.
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The Missing Chapter from 'The New New Thing'
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There's a chapter missing from the best-selling hardcover "New
New Thing" by Michael Lewis one that's being written this
month in a series of high-profile Internet deals. In the book,
published in October, Lewis wants us to feel haunted by Jim
Clark, the center of a secret history of Silicon Valley. Clark
always seems years ahead of everyone else, practically
inventing mainstream computer graphics as the founder of
Silicon Graphics in the 1980s and, in the '90s, handing us a
point-and-click Internet in the form of Netscape.