Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.