Perhaps 'discovered' or 'isolated' would be a better. It's the sort of thing that's unusual in computing but common in natural science. Something that's all aro

Perhaps 'discovered' or 'isolated' would be a better. It's the sort of thing that's unusual in computing but common in natural science. Something that's all around us, but we don't realise how to access it until someone comes along and componentises it for us. (The key quality of JSON for my perspective is that was a form that was immediately usable across several languages which already existed.)