TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 14:01:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Or maybe there would have been a market for commercial 
> browsers, like Opera.

This timeline is quite telling:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline_of_web_browsers.svg

It is rather obvious that the web would have evolved without 
Netscape. But Internet Explorer could have become completely 
dominating, of course.