xkcd 927 - How Standards Proliferate(See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)
Situation: There are 14 competing standards.
Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other:Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.Ponytail: Yeah!
Soon: Situation: we did it our standard beat all the other ones and is universal yay :D