The question of who is the author is clearer, I think, in AARON, because Cohen created the tool, while with corporate software, obviously, that authorship isn't there.
Christiane Paul, Christiane Paul on Curating Cohen’s AARON
In the early days, the web felt like a kind of wild frontier, identity was fluid, authorship unstable, and the rules were still being made.
Eva and Franco Mattes, Eva and Franco Mattes on Mega Eliza