You're speaking of real history, not the watered down version that gets taught to school children.

Unfortunately, without concerted effort, the public will willfully reject an alternate history if it's more nuanced. Exhibit A, who invented the telephone?

That is a really bad example to use as there is no general agreement on the issue. The Italian government obviously has a biased opinion in wanting to credit one of their citizens(I’m actually confused if he was Italian or American because it said his invention was in New York).

I don’t know what skin in the game Canada has when they passed a resolution recognizing Bell Graham as the inventor.

Honestly to me it looks like there is not a clear answer. You can pick either of them you want, draw an abitrary line in the sand about what a ‘telephone’ really is and use that line to defend your choice.

Any rational argument on the topic will have to start with both parties agreeing on what a telephone is first and then looking at the two parties to see which invented their agreed definition.

There were other competing ideas to http and html. They were better but unfortunately lost out. Tim is incredibly lucky that what he wrote for his PhD unexpectedly took off - he is also a one hit wonder. Steve’s story is vastly different.

Yeah, I appreciate TBL, but I don’t think he can take credit for the web. The web picked his project as its nest, more than he did anything to conjure it.