We have? When? The only change I know of is IPv6, and we haven't changed to it. And it is more of an extension than an actual change.
Yes we have. There was the 1822 protocol, than NCP came along, some use of X.25, UUCP, UDP, TCP, IP (first v4, than the addition of 6), and in the future we will probably have new protocals, at least in the distant future. If we ever drop IPv4, or even IP or TCP completly, it will still be the Internet.
"but if it wasn't created by the the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, some one else would have created some different piece of software."
Which may not have supported HTML
In which case either it would have supporting something else equally good, or someone else would have wrote an HTML browser. Mosaic wasn't even the first browser, it was just the first one widely used. If it wasn't good, or wasn't created, or otherwise wasn't widely adopted, something else would have been adopted. Your argument is like saying if it wasn't for the Wright Brothers we never would have had airplanes, or like the Wordstar example I gave before.
"Your argument is like saying if Wordstar wasn't invented we wouldn't have PC word processor software."
Now you are just being silly. My argument is nothing like this. Wordstar is not a dominant word processor, and hasn't even been sold for years
Mosaic isn't the dominant browser anymore either, and it wasn't even the first browser.
Wordstar was for a time dominant. It was the first wide spread PC software word processor.
Its not so much about Wordstar anyway, but the fact that without the specific item that became either the first or the first in wide spread use, most important categories of things would have existed anyway. If it wasn't for the first car (claims about which was first are disputed, and also at the borderline in can be debated what early vehicle is a car and what isn't), or even for Henry Ford, we would still likely have lots of cars today. The same thing holds for Mosaic and browsers. |
