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30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

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Re: 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

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Post by arethuza »

jacquesm wrote: post #25

The Balkanization of the WWW and the network effects that keep Google, Facebook and Microsoft entrenched are going to make the web a lot less fun in the coming years. I feel more and more like a lemon that will be squeezed either way, and it doesn't matter much to me whether I get bitten by the dog or by the cat. The other article on the HN home page hits quite hard at what the web has become vs what it could have be…

I've been using the web since '92 and as a piece of technology it's had a great run - but I do suspect that the more locked down and closed the web becomes (not to mention almost comically intrusive at times) that it will motivate someone to create a platform that could become a successor.

Re: 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

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Post by type0 »

jacquesm wrote: post #25

The Balkanization of the WWW and the network effects that keep Google, Facebook and Microsoft entrenched are going to make the web a lot less fun in the coming years. I feel more and more like a lemon that will be squeezed either way, and it doesn't matter much to me whether I get bitten by the dog or by the cat. The other article on the HN home page hits quite hard at what the web has become vs what it could have be…

It looks like it might be balkanized into 2 camps: oWeb (oligopoly web) and dWeb (decentralized Web). Which one would you go for given the choice?

Re: 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

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Post by qwertox »

okket wrote: post #32

30 years and the WWW is about sending people to Facebook to watch a video :(

My thought exactly. It's sad to see that even CERN will tell you to move over into that walled garden, the worst of them all. I can't see it since all the FB-domains are blacklisted at my location.

I'm sure Zuckerberg is very proud of that.

Re: 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

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Post by qwertox »

stesch wrote: post #19

Yesterday I couldn’t read an ancient Greek text on Project Gutenberg because I’m from Germany. Two days ago I couldn’t read an article on an US news site because I’m from Europe. The “WW” in “WWW” is a joke.

It's technically possible if you go to another country. And if you consider that it's also practically possible if you use a VPN, it's not really the fault of the web.

Re: 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

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Post by icot »

isostatic wrote: post #21

Urgh. Two hours of Video and no summary. I wish I had two hours to watch it. Here's an open letter about Tim's view on the dysfunction that affects the web today. https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ The BBC did an interview with him too > after a good first 15 years, things had turned bad and a "mid-course correction" was needed. He's optimistic such a correction will occur. I hope I'm that uncynical w…

The first 30 minutes is an Introduction panel with the first 5 names in the Featured Speakers section.

Then there's a 30 minutes interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, where among other things he touches on Solid (https://solid.mit.edu/).

The last hour is a shared panel with the rest of the featured speakers on the impact of the Web on Human Rights, surveillance, privacy, etc.

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