"...by the time Jim Clark was ready to discuss his 1996 results with Wall Street, Americans had become accustomed to watching Pepsi ads with the company's Web address splashed across the bottom of the screen: www.pepsi.com. They were almost as accustomed to typing that address and a thousand others like it into Netscape's command line. Americans had logged on to the Internet with a vengeance, and Netscape dominated the Internet browser market with an estimated 83 percent market share. Microsoft was a distant second with a measly 8 percent.
Ironically, Microsoft could have owned that command line. But Microsoft had stared into the vast potential of the Internet . . . and blinked."
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Date: 2015-07-06 01:51 am (UTC)JENNIFER EDSTROM
MARLIN ELLER
1998
http://kysmykseka.net/koti/wizardry/Computer%20History/Edstrom%20&%20Eller%20-%20Barbarians%20Led%20by%20Bill%20Gates%20-%20Microsoft%20from%20the%20Inside%20-%20How%20the%20World's%20Richest%20Corporation%20Wields%20Its%20Power%20(1999).pdf
"...by the time Jim Clark was ready to discuss his 1996 results with Wall Street, Americans had become accustomed to watching Pepsi ads with the company's Web address splashed across the bottom of the screen: www.pepsi.com. They were almost as accustomed to typing that address and a thousand others like it into Netscape's command line. Americans had logged on to the Internet with a vengeance, and Netscape dominated the Internet browser market with an estimated 83 percent market share. Microsoft was a distant second with a measly 8 percent.
Ironically, Microsoft could have owned that command line. But Microsoft had stared into the vast potential of the Internet . . . and blinked."