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Chances are you would not be posting this rationale online if not for Steve Jobs.

He brought computers down to the level of mere mortals (and others copied his vision leading to the explosion of personal computing globally).

No computers --> No internet. You should keep that in mind.

ps. Even the original protocols for the internet were laid down by Tim Berners-Lee on a Steve Jobs-conceived Next computer.

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This is most probably false, but even if it was true it would not be a receivable argument.

If this is in reply to Tim Berners Lee writing the web on a NeXt, it is not false. He also went to Paris to a conference to show Steve the stuff with his black NeXt. Unfortunately he (Tim) was at the end of the line and Steve had to leave before seeing his "web". Actually if I recall, since then, Tim never met Steve until very recently or perhaps they have never met.

I was replying to "no Steve = no web", which seem a good sample of irrational exaggeration I'd rather not see on hn, even on his death.

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