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VerdictPersonKindSaidClaimTopic
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 1999 Amazon.com's employee base grew from approximately 600 to over 2,100 during 1998. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1999 Economics and markets
Own records only Bill Gates Factual 1999 When customers ask Bill Gates what first step improves value from their information systems and collaboration, he always answers "E-mail." Bill Gates · Factual · 1999 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Factual 1999 Amazon.com became the leading online video retailer within 6 weeks of adding video in November 1998. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1999 Economics and markets
Own records only Bill Gates Factual 1999 Bill Gates reads all the e-mail that Microsoft employees send him. Bill Gates · Factual · 1999 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Bill Gates Factual 1999 Microsoft reduced its number of paper forms from more than 1,000 to a company-wide total of 60. Bill Gates · Factual · 1999 Their own work or organisation
Own records only Bill Gates Factual 1999 Bill Gates passes items from employee e-mail on to people for action. Bill Gates · Factual · 1999 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Bill Gates Prediction 1999 Merchants who treat e-commerce as more than a digital cash register will do the best. Bill Gates · Prediction · 1999 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Factual 21 Mar 1998 In 1997 Amazon.com established long-term relationships with strategic partners including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home and Prodigy. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 21 Mar 1998 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Prediction 21 Mar 1998 Through personalization, online commerce will in future accelerate the process of discovery for customers. Jeff Bezos · Prediction · 21 Mar 1998 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Factual 21 Mar 1998 The share of Amazon.com orders from repeat customers grew from over 46% in Q4 1996 to over 58% in Q4 1997. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 21 Mar 1998 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Prediction 1998 Online bookselling and online commerce in general should prove to be a very large market, and it is likely that a number of companies will benefit significantly. Jeff Bezos · Prediction · 1998 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 1998 In 1997 Amazon.com substantially enhanced its online store, adding gift certificates, 1-Click shopping, and more reviews, content, browsing options and recommendation features. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1998 Technology
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 1998 Amazon.com was the market leader in online bookselling at the end of 1997. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1998 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 1998 Amazon.com dramatically lowered prices in 1997. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1998 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 1998 Amazon.com's cash and investment balances at end of 1997 were $125 million, following its May 1997 IPO and a $75 million loan. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1998 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Promise 1998 Amazon.com plans to add music to its product offering. Jeff Bezos · Promise · 1998 Economics and markets
Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 1998 By the end of 1997 Amazon.com had served more than 1.5 million customers, with revenue up 838% to $147.8 million. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1998 Economics and markets
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 1997 Amazon.com's sales grew from $15.7 million in 1996 to $147.8 million in 1997, an 838% increase. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1997 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Jeff Bezos Factual 1997 Word of mouth is Amazon.com's most powerful customer acquisition tool. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1997 Economics and markets
Mostly false Marc Andreessen Prediction Jun 1995 George Gilder predicts that within five to ten years the Internet will essentially be free. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Netscape builds cryptography into most of its products. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Prediction Jun 1995 Andreessen said he thought a lot of companies were going to start taking advantage of "that"; the material does not say what "that" refers to. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Mosaic was basically written without bandwidth considerations in mind, designed for a really fast network at a time when its developers had the NSF T3 backbone (45 Mbps). Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 The idle supercomputers sit unused because scientists prefer a DEC Alpha workstation, which is as fast or faster than a supercomputer at a fraction of the cost. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 AI compute, hardware and data
Own records only Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Supercomputing centers cannot afford to remove their idle supercomputers from buildings; removal from the third floor costs $500,000. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Netscape did not have a major sales force in Europe as of June 1995. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 The government set the OSI networking standard, which nobody uses. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Research funding in general, and for efforts like Mosaic in particular, dropped off in the early 1990s. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Own records only Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Netscape has archived and sorted all incoming user feedback messages. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Prediction Jun 1995 Among other things, commercialization will guarantee that the Net will be there. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen said the project he and Eric worked on never really had a manager. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Own records only Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen said that "we" basically declined to take a license fee because, at that point, they did not see any potential property issues. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Cryptography is export-controlled by the US government as a munition, and Netscape makes exportable versions of its software, which are the ones predominantly used on the Internet. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 The Internet already existed when Andreessen began working at the university lab, and everybody there used it. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 In the 3 to 4 years before 1995, PCs went from a hobbyist toy to use by roughly 40 to 50 million people. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 The networks in question all use TCP/IP, which was not a government standard. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Prediction Jun 1995 Catalogs of Internet resources will be supported by advertising in the future. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Own records only Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Netscape's global sales force consisted of six people in June 1995. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 In June 1995, Andreessen said he thought Netscape had about six million Navigator users on the public network, not counting users behind firewalls. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 One of the things Netscape tried to do was keep the concepts of client and server very separate. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Mixed Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Early in his time at the University of Illinois, Andreessen started working in a research lab at the university's physics research facility. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Prediction Jun 1995 Some day it should be possible for everyone to publish on the Net as easily as using word processing. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · Jun 1995 Technology
Own records only Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen spends half an hour every morning reading news online, in addition to newspapers. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Other
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 The Mosaic team designed Mosaic with end users as its target. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Internet access was never free; it always cost money. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Marc Andreessen Prediction Jun 1995 Five or ten years is about the right timeframe to think about consumers shifting their commerce online, because that is about how long it takes for consumer habits to change on a broad scale. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Resolved true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 After the company shipped product in December, its revenues went from zero to a level where it was pretty much able to fund the bulk of its work and development. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Resolved true Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Yahoo was started by Ph.D. students at Stanford. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Mostly false Marc Andreessen Factual Jun 1995 Leaving aside access into the home, general bandwidth is improving in price-performance, or dropping in price, faster than microprocessors, by a factor of about four each year. Marc Andreessen · Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Bill Gates Prediction 1995 People always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Bill Gates · Prediction · 1995 Technology
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“One of the things that we tried to do was make sure to keep the concepts of client and server very separate”

Marc Andreessen, Netscape founder and COO June 1995 Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Marc Andreessen (Smithsonian)

One of the things Netscape tried to do was keep the concepts of client and server very separate.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

Judge as of 1995-06. True: contemporaneous documentation or accounts show that Netscape's product architecture deliberately kept client (Navigator) and server products and concepts separate, for example through separate products communicating over open standard protocols (HTTP/HTML) rather than proprietary client-server coupling. Mostly true: separation was a clear design principle with minor exceptions, such as some Netscape-specific extensions working best with its own servers. Mixed: separation held in some respects, but substantial client-server coupling existed. Mostly false: Netscape's design notably tied its client and server together, with only a nominal separation. False: the design deliberately merged client and server concepts.

Evidence

  1. The Marc Andreessen Interview Page Thom Stark (personal interview page) · 1 January 1995 Own record
    “First of all, what we're basically going to do is, we're going to provide our customers with interoperability--whatever that takes, whatever that means.”
  2. The Marc Andreessen Interview Page Thom Stark (personal interview page) · 1 January 1995 Own record
    “Netscape currently offers a Web server which uses the SSL protocol you developed to permit secure transactions over the Web for business uses, and Netscape Navigator supports SSL transparently.”
  3. 133 U.S. Department of Justice (court filing, United States v. Microsoft findings) · 18 January 2026
    “that they were pleased with the revenues they were receiving from licensing both browser and server software to enterprises.”
  4. Internet OS - Wikipedia Wikipedia · 16 July 2011
    “Netscape also would continue to sell its server software, and Java applets would run cross-platform on both its clients and its servers, and as a scripting language in the form of JavaScript.”
  5. The Marc Andreessen Interview Page Thom Stark (interviewer; page copyright 1995) · 1 January 1995
    “First of all, what we're basically going to do is, we're going to provide our customers with interoperability--whatever that takes, whatever that means.”
  6. The Marc Andreessen Interview Page Thom Stark (interviewer; page copyright 1995) · 1 January 1995
    “Netscape currently offers a Web server which uses the SSL protocol you developed to permit secure transactions over the Web for business uses, and Netscape Navigator supports SSL transparently.”
  7. United States v. Microsoft, Plaintiffs' findings of fact (section III, Alternative Platform-Level Technologies) U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
    “Netscape's browsers contain their own set of APIs (as well as a set of Java APIs) to which applications developers can write applications.”
  8. 1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up Web Server Market cybercultural.com · 31 August 2021
    “By the end of 1994, Netscape had released two web server products.”
  9. 1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up Web Server Market cybercultural.com · 31 August 2021
    “It knew that Netscape primarily made money off its web servers, not its browser.”

Reasoning

E8 and E9 are later retrospectives showing that Netscape sold web server products separately from its browser. They do not describe how the client and server were designed or whether separating them was a deliberate principle. E2/E6 say Navigator supported the SSL protocol used by Netscape's server, which links the two products, but neither item says whether this coupling was proprietary. E1/E5 contain only a general pledge of interoperability, and E3, E4 and E7 do not address whether client and server concepts were kept apart. None of this evidence settles the criteria either way.

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Marc Andreessen, “One of the things Netscape tried to do was keep the concepts of client and server very separate.” (said June 1995). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a83da3e69e41, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a83da3e69e41

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