Comment by pixelmonkey

Butterfly effect is really something. Steve Jobs gets kicked out of Apple, builds NeXT as a form of revenge. Tim Berners-Lee buys a NeXT computer, finds it inspiring, and, thanks to NeXT's focus on a usable development environment, finds it easy to whip together a prototype of the WorldWideWeb. And so, even though none of us use NeXT computers today, thanks to one particularly important NeXT computer, all of us use the Internet and hyperlinks today. And yes, I know that much of MacOS and iOS has some lineage to NeXT. Still, this chain of events: Apple => NeXT => Tim Berners-Lee => WorldWideWeb is just bonkers for its world-wide ramifications.