Web & cloud

AWS did not invent the cloud—it repackaged Amazon’s internal automation as a product, and won by shipping first, not by being smarter.

Firefox didn’t dethrone IE—but it rewrote the rules every browser had to follow.

GitHub did not invent collaboration — it productised the friction out of Git-based teamwork.

Marc Andreessen didn’t invent the web — he made it legible, clickable, and blue.

He didn’t invent the web—he bolted three existing technologies together to fix a paperwork crisis at CERN.