Marc Andreessen: Web Warrior

by Daniel Ehrenhaft

Computer geniuses who've made it big are the ultimate heroes for many kids. These young millionaires in the high-tech and business worlds are big news today, but like all inventors before them, their work is based on the work of their predecessors.On August 9, 1995, Marc Andreessen's personal net worth skyrocketed from a few thousand dollars to over $58 million. As one of the founders of Netscape, Andreesson led a revolution that has changed the way people communicate with one another and transformed the Internet into the fastest-growing communications network in human history.

3 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Daniel Ehrenhaft is the author of several dozen books for children and young adults—so many books, in fact, that he has lost count. He has often written under the pseudonym Daniel Parker (his middle name, which is easier to spell and pronounce than his last), and occasionally Erin Haft. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Jessica, as well as a scruffy dog named Gibby and a psychotic cat named Bootsy. When he isn't writing, he tirelessly travels the globe on a doomed mission to achieve rock stardom. As of this date, his musical credits include the composition of bluegrass soundtrack numbers for the epic straight-to-video B movie The Grave, a brief stint playing live rap music to baffled Filipino audiences in Hong Kong, and scoring the still-picture montage Election Trip. He once worked in a cheese shop. He was fired.