[tedunangst]

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]

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

[tedunangst]

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