I concur. I was just thinking about XMLHttpRequest [0] which was developed to support Outlook Web Access (years before Gmail). As developers discovered and play

I concur. I was just thinking about XMLHttpRequest [0] which was developed to support Outlook Web Access (years before Gmail). As developers discovered and played with it, it became the X in AJAX and eventually became a standard. That standardization happened after it had proved its usefulness and been applied in many different contexts by many different people. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)