The person you quoted didn't say Blizzard invented the RTS genre, but you'd be naive to claim that they weren't the ones that popularized it, because they absolutely were. RTS games have existed since the early 80's, but never became overly popular until Orcs and Humans.
None of the games prior to Warcraft ever saw the level of popularity and exposure that Warcraft Orcs and Humans saw. Try and find one that did. The closest you'll get is Dune II, World of Warcraft Gold and there's no denying the success (and long lasting impact) each game saw (Warcraft blew it out of the water. You can thank Westwood for spending time developing and marketing the game for inferior systems like MegaDrive and RISC OS) instead of having a singular focus like Blizzard did.
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