I am surprised that the author did not mention the semantic web we did get. It's in his source, after all. If you look at the header of the page, you'll see the

I am surprised that the author did not mention the semantic web we did get. It's in his source, after all. If you look at the header of the page, you'll see the lines below. Sure they are not the utopian version of the semantic web we were promised. Instead, it's even better: it's the pragmatic semantic web we need: <!-- Twitter --> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@TwoBitHistory" /> <!-- OpenGraph --> <meta property="og:image" content="https://twobithistory.org/images/logo.png" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?" /> <meta property="og:description" content="In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. " />