Marc Andreessen

Within three to five years (by 1999), the Internet/Web will become a new mass medium for society in general.

“three to five years from now there will be a new type of medium for society in general.”

Said on

1 January 1994 · Interview in Network Computing magazine, "The Pattern in the Mosaic" (1994), logged in the Elon/Pew Predictions Database

Source

The Pattern in the Mosaic (Imagining the Internet predictions database) · Elon University

Should come true

1999

How sure they sounded

there will be

Categories

Technology

Importance

4 of 5 · The emergence of the Web as a mass medium reshaped communication and commerce worldwide.

Outcome

Accurate Happened 31 December 1998.

By 1998-1999 the World Wide Web had grown from a niche academic network into a mass medium with well over 100 million users, mainstream news sites, portals and e-commerce, within the 3-5 year window.

Evidence:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web
• https://ourworldindata.org/internet