A man built a hosted application service in his basement in 1975. His grandson arrived at the same model independently in the nineties. Other people built it both times.
Each stop is a page in the graph. The order is an argument — but every one of them is also a door into the rest of it, so you can leave the path wherever it stops being useful.
Both ideas produced enormous downstream value and no attribution, because no mechanism existed to record what a contribution caused. That is not a grievance. It is the specification.