I'm also someone who are driven and get excited about working on something fundamental. My recent endeavor is the result of years to figuring out what can be the fundamentals for the web -- Building Blocks for the Internet.
It would be helpful to understand why you feel like version control (git, not github), a programming language (javascript), a browser, a database are all fundamentals? They are not the first in their respective categories, just that they all became popular? I feel like your examples also lean heavily towards developer only tools?
It would be helpful to understand why you feel like version control (git, not github), a programming language (javascript), a browser, a database are all fundamentals? They are not the first in their respective categories, just that they all became popular? I feel like your examples also lean heavily towards developer only tools?