“I have to share the credit,” Bradley joked. “I may have
invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.”
seems to support the theory that he reinvented it independently. I'd be interested to know who at MIT picked the key combination Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout for the Lisp Machines.
> Clients never were reasonnable in their demands, nor did most of the site owner have good and simple tastes and care about efficiency, nor did half of the internet care about user experience first above everything else.
My web browser today uses more memory than my computer had in 1996. The web isn't efficient today at all.