> If the Semantic Web had a chance to grow before the giants of tech emerged, we might be looking at a vastly superior internet today. I worked pretty closely

> If the Semantic Web had a chance to grow before the giants of tech emerged, we might be looking at a vastly superior internet today. I worked pretty closely with people doing a lot of semantic web work in the 2006ish era, before Google and ML dominated tech. Even then it was nearly impossible to find a single, useful example of the semantic web in action. The reasoner a la something like OWL is the true heart of the semantic web, but that never got solved at the scale necessary for the web. For any practical problem or even interesting side projects semantic web technologies didn't offer anything that you couldn't build better using existing tools. People made RDF data stores because they wanted to use RDF, but I don't recall any interesting demos of semantic reasoners.