The web is meant for anything you can build with its tools. That its tools lagged behind what people were building with them is just a reminder that a platform

The web is meant for anything you can build with its tools. That its tools lagged behind what people were building with them is just a reminder that a platform's caretakers have little to do with the creators on the platform. This goes for everything. I built a forum from scratch that miraculously exploded into a community and culture and drama. 15 years later I look at it and realize it happened in spite of me, not because of me. It doesn't even feel like any of it's mine. I'm a groundskeeper. I might have built the scaffolding, but who am I to say what it's for once thousands of people have made that decision for themselves? "No, no, no. The web is for boring documents of <p> and <img>! What are you people building?! The most complicated application I envisioned when I invented HTTP was Encyclopedia Britannica online, and the limits of my imagination must be yours!"