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Meet The Man Who Invented The Browser Tab

Adam Stiles recalls “the first tab” and how he came to create the atomic unit of internet navigation.

I wonder if you feel any sense of responsibility or ownership, good or bad, about the culture of tab proliferation that you described? Do you have any personal feelings about it?
I feel entirely neutral about it. Tabbed browsers are just tools. You can use them well, or you can use them poorly. Chrome is now my favorite browser, and I have a reasonable number of tabs open. I don’t have a personal problem with tab proliferation. If I did, maybe I’d try to solve that too.