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This is a remarkably bitter take. Sir Berners-Lee deserves thanks. None of us created the web and I don't think we can say that it was inevitable that someone w
by golemotron 7y ago
This is a remarkably bitter take. Sir Berners-Lee deserves thanks. None of us created the web and I don't think we can say that it was inevitable that someone would have in its initial open form. It changed the world.
That said, his attempts to reclaim the web to its original frontier state don't seem possible. There are innumerable reasons why; network effects and entrenched interests being the least of them.