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To: combjelly who wrote (561861)	4/28/2010 1:32:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1576130

Nothing is inevitable with computers. Some very good ideas have died quiet deaths because they didn't catch on for whatever reason. Your blithe certainty that some other browser would have come along and launched the web is misplaced. While it might have happened, it is also likely that it wouldn't have. This is one of the more ridiculous claims you've made. It is laugh out loud funny. The browser came into existence when "visual" computing was in its infancy. Literally. There were dozens of networking protocols in use, any number of which might have evolved into something equivalent to, perhaps better than, TCP/IP. Assuming, arguendo, that the browser was a result of this one specific protocol, the notion that it was "one man's idea" and nobody else would have conceived it is just ridiculous. Do you think without TCP/IP there would be no equivalent to WANs today? Geez.

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