Comment by UniverseHacker

I was an early user of KDE back in 2000 and thought they were absolutely insane for trying to write their own web browser engine when it was controlled by Microsoft and Netscape. The web was just too complex and nothing worked in it, there was just no way a tiny open source project like that could make any useful headway with browser technology.

Of course, jump forward 24 years and the KDE browser engine is basically the only game in town- the basis of both Chrome and Safari. Absolutely no way I saw that coming.