[irrational]

There were other web servers, there weren't other jQuerys.

[emilsedgh]

I get the point you're mentioning but jQuery was there with Prototype.js and Mootools.

[nathell]

And Dojo and YUI and a couple of others.

[kyle-rb]

But Apache was born before jQuery, and continues to live on after jQuery (should have) died.