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Re:Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron... by nothingspecial on Friday September 06, 2013 @08:13AM (#6339974)
Just like the world wide web was nothing special since at the time it was invented

  * tcp/ip and the internet had been around for a good while
  * client/server document browsing had been around for a good while and
  * hypertext documents with clickable links generated from markup
    had been around for while (microsoft help viewer)
The ideas behind the WWW had been floating around for a good while. TBL just went ahead and made it.
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Re:Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron... by grannyg00se on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:23AM (#6340873)
Crockford's story [1] behind the genesis of JSON is similar. Everything was already there, but he's the one who formalized it gave it an official home. That helped propel it to its current level of popularity. The fact that he didn't create javascript, the internet, the www, tcp, etc is not relevant.

[1] http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/08/11/video-crockford-json/

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