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He probably meant web and not Internet. The IP protocol, which is arguably what is closest to what internet really means haven’t seen a change since the 80s. We

• bawolff 6y ago
  But his point was that the foundations were fixed. You could say the same thing about the internet in the early 90s, and then http changed a bunch of things. Whose to say the same thing won't happen tommorow. It doesn't seem like HTTP is any more of a fixed foundation today than tcp/ip was in the 90s
  • aflag 6y ago
    TCP/IP is still strong with us today. The whole web is built on top of that. Given that browsers today already support HTTP/2, it is hard to imagine that in 25 years the web would have moved to something else. HTTP/1 has been around for longer than that and it's still strong. The only change that made things incompatible was SSL, but it is unlikely that will change anytime soon either. I think the take away from that blog post is that the user experience from 95 is not that drastically different from the experience from today. The leap from the 80s UI to 90s was drastic, but it has been getting more stable since. To the point that I would call it stagnated for at least the past 10 years. The web UI did change a lot and, as noticed, it is completely incompatible with browsers from 95. But that's largely because it was catching up with the native apps/ui. I think we are there already, though. So I expect the web to be as stable as the native protocols and graphical toolkits have been for the past 25 years. Probably even more so, since keeping backwards compatibility is much more important in the web.