"Creating the #web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the #hypertext like the #internet, multi-font text objects had all been designed already. I just had to put them together"
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Your heroes were just in the right place at the right time, you would have done what they did in their place.