very cool, i like how the author didn't do any trollish editorializing like "lulz brin and page were soooooo unoriginal, omgz pagerank is so not innovative it's

very cool, i like how the author didn't do any trollish editorializing like "lulz brin and page were soooooo unoriginal, omgz pagerank is so not innovative it's been around for 60 yearz, anybody could've built googlez" scientific discoveries inevitably build off of prior work, so it's nice to see this sort of article acknowledging predecessors to seemingly-modern ideas without denigrating them.