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PS: I can't think of a single technology over 20 years old where the first mover is still the leader. Popular internet protocols tend to evolve rather than get
by moe 12y ago
PS: I can't think of a single technology over 20 years old where the first mover is still the leader.
Popular internet protocols tend to evolve rather than get replaced (cf. nearly every protocol ever).
- Retric 12y agoSort of. Email, IP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, HTTPS, etc are all improvements and often minor ones on existing technology. The difference is really that computers where getting far more common in the early stages of the Internet which confuses the issue. EX: few people know about SGML even if all those ML languages use it's formatting. Gopher vs WWW. Hell even DNS is derivative the ARPANET used a HOSTS.TXT file.