The Web That Never Was

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Explores an alternate history of the web by imagining different business and technical decisions — for example IBM hiring Digital Research instead of Microsoft in 1980 or Marc Andreessen joining Nintendo instead of founding Netscape — and traces how those changes would have produced a web without Microsoft, Windows, Firefox, Google or JavaScript. Uses counterfactual scenarios to show how different platforms, protocols and programming languages might have emerged and shaped a very different software industry.

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