well it still goes back to the original arguement that it has to be published and reproducible.
else it would be forgotten and re-discovered again at a later stage.
some scientific discoveries of the mordern era were actually discovered by earlier ancient people before mordern science started recording such discoveries.
netscape was the standard back then when expolorer was crap.....fast forward today,firefox(netscape's successor) is still the standard when other browsers are still crap.
edit: spelling firefox and netscape....god damn butter fingers...