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One of the things with being first on something cool is that it's a no-brainer 30 years later. Everyone thinks things are obvious in hindsight.
by renewiltord 3y ago
One of the things with being first on something cool is that it's a no-brainer 30 years later. Everyone thinks things are obvious in hindsight.
- labrador 3y agoMy point was Andreeson wasn't first with a GUI web browser. It seems like you didn't even read my comment.
- renewiltord 3y agoI read it. No one is first with anything. There isn't a single thing that someone is first with. Given some thing x, and some \eps, you can find some x_0 that precedes x in time such |x-x_0|<\eps. It's just a matter of looking. That's just how human knowledge is formed. Who can tell, perhaps William Gibson was the originator of the Internet and everyone else just did the highly obvious thing of making it.