I 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 p

I 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.