If the article "Imposter Boy" is to be believed, Marc Andreesen did almost nothing on the Mosaic project beyond stealing the idea for it from a colleage at the NCSA.
Andreessen essentially snatched the Mosaic project away from the guy who'd had the idea. Soon after meeting with Hardin, Thompson made what would turn out to be a big mistake: He showed the browsers to his colleague Andreessen. Then Thompson went off to an out-of-town conference. Another bad move.
Andreessen acted swiftly. In one sleepless weekend, he hacked out a crude prototype for a new Web browser. (Andreessen's peers didn't consider him a great programmer, but he was known for being a remarkably fast one.) Then Andreessen used the prototype as a ploy for recruiting a colleague named Eric Bina to team up with him.
Bina was the head programmer on Mosaic. None of the ideas of Mosaic were original to it, or to Andreesen.
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Date: 2003-05-02 10:18 pm (UTC)Cite: http://www.chrispy.net/marca/gqarticle.html
Bina was the head programmer on Mosaic. None of the ideas of Mosaic were original to it, or to Andreesen.