Topic

The internet

A research network that became the substrate for everything.

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Brendan Eich

JavaScript isn’t a language—it’s a syntax compromise that shipped.

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

Google Search didn’t organise the web—it redefined authority as a function of linkage, then language, then generation.

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

Starlink doesn’t connect the unconnected—it replaces terrestrial infrastructure with orbital scale, at orbital cost.

The web broke links on purpose — Nelson designed them to hold.