This is like how Superman originally just jumped really far instead of flying, it might technically have been the case in the beginning but it isn't canon for anybody but extreme purists. Superman flies, Spiderman has mechanical web shooters he fills with chemical web fluid, etc.
Spider-Man was published for 40 years before the added the organic web shooters to align the comic with the movie. No one who read the comic prior to 2002 would have seen them.
This is like how Superman originally just jumped really far instead of flying, it might technically have been the case in the beginning but it isn't canon for anybody but extreme purists. Superman flies, Spiderman has mechanical web shooters he fills with chemical web fluid, etc.
Spider-Man was published for 40 years before the added the organic web shooters to align the comic with the movie. No one who read the comic prior to 2002 would have seen them.