Reading this thread reminds me of what Alan Kay said a few years ago: - The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like t

Reading this thread reminds me of what Alan Kay said a few years ago: - The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. I've been doing web dev for over 15 years and this quote is pretty much how I would describe the web development scene.