Sorry, it was too humiliating for me to bring up again :-/ It pains me to even think about it.

I'm pretty happy about "inventing caching", independently, all on my own as a teenager, some 40 years after it was actually being introduced.

I invented CSVs (and using them as a database!) as a teenager. I was really goddamn proud of myself.

I invented hook-loop when I was 8 years old only be told it was called crochet!

Here on HN you are among friends, my friend :)

Thanks for the kind words! But I just want to forget about that mistake.

This is literally how science works though.

Independent invention is a stronger data point than peer review, or even independent reproduction.