All true. I think this is good evidence we live in the best of all possible worlds: A Jobs&#x2F;NeXT WWW browser a couple of years ahead of Netscape probably would have fared even worse against Microsoft&#x27;s inevitable counterattack. For all we know, we could have ended up in a &quot;Blackbird&quot; (aka MSN) dominated universe, and without a revitalized Apple to give us Unix on the desktop.<p>Still, I do find it totally plausible that Jobs could have been inspired to redirect NeXT&#x27;s struggling business to the nascent web. Some of those old WebObjects interviews that get posted to HN periodically demonstrate the he &quot;got&quot; the web and its potential as an application delivery platform much earlier than most.