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tedunangst on Aug 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The innovations of Internet Explorer

How soon we forget. If TBL hadn't invented the web, we all would have had to wait six months for gopher to come out. Hell, SGML + FTP is practically the same as the web, and that was around for years.

morsch on Aug 23, 2012 [–]

Heh. I knew that whatever example I came up with, someone would come along and bash it.

tedunangst on Aug 23, 2012 | [–]

Just goes to show, there's not much point in identifying "inevitable" innovations. History quickly forgets the also-rans.

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