Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
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Early Life and Education Timeline

This timeline highlights Marc Andreessen's formative years, focusing on his education and the development of his early interests.
Birth
July 9, 1971
Marc Lowell Andreessen is born in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Childhood in New Lisbon, Wisconsin
1970s-1980s
Growing up in the small town of New Lisbon, Wisconsin, Andreessen develops an early fascination with technology and computers.
Early Exposure to Computing
Late 1980s
He experiences computing through the town's library's Radio Shack TRS-80 and later gets an Apple II, fueling his interest in programming.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1989-1993
Andreessen attends the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1993. He works as an intern at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).