A universe where you are not standing on the shoulders of giants.
For a little context the deep note was released the same year as TCP/IP and the Commodore 64. Source code was mostly shared by printing it in magazines (multi-page printed publications that would be mailed to your house monthly in exchange for a yearly subscription fee).
I don't disagree with you but a comment above shows the truth, that it was 400 lines and 200,000 lines of synth code he didn't write. Anyway, it is still cool.
For a little context the deep note was released the same year as TCP/IP and the Commodore 64. Source code was mostly shared by printing it in magazines (multi-page printed publications that would be mailed to your house monthly in exchange for a yearly subscription fee).