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Matthew writes: Brian Wilson, a Pensacola FL resident, was hailed today by the World Wide Web Consortium as the only person to have ever paid retail price for a web browser.
“Well, It was 1997 I think–maybe 96. I was in CompUSA, and there was this thing called Netscape Navigator 4 in a box on the shelf. I looked at the cool wheel and the ship sailing through space, and I thought, damn, this web thingy must be pretty cool. So yeah, I bought it. I paid 69.95. Of course, once I got on I found out that everyone else downloaded it for free or used Internet Explorer, but I was still happy. I’ve got the manual. Who else has that?”
“I also bought NetScape at 135. Ten Shares. Now the lot of them [as converted AOL/Time Warner stock] are worth 1.14. But hey, I’ve got the stock certificates.”
Marc Andreesen, Chief designer of NetScape Navigator and inventor of the flashing text HTML tag, thanked Mr. Wilson personally. “Mr. Wilson, had there been another few hundred million like you, I wouldn’t have had to sell out.”