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*The only difference is that Samuel Johnson stayed in England and Noah Webster didn't.
If you ever read The Stories of English or Spell It Out by David Crystal, you'll come to realize that English spelling has been a process of experimentation over the course of centuries. Standardization involves both arbitrary decisions made by influential men (like Johnson or Webster), and choosing one perfectly valid dialect over another because one dialect belongs to the people who have all the power.
tl;dr: There have always been thousands of Englishes.