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My web-technology professor at my uni (around 2007) was a big fan of XML and all the surrounding technologies. He saw it as this beautiful interconnected system
by riggsdk 4y ago
My web-technology professor at my uni (around 2007) was a big fan of XML and all the surrounding technologies. He saw it as this beautiful interconnected system where the web being pure XML would allow all data in the world to be queried like a database and transformed into any format you wanted.
The web sure didn't go that way...
- didntreadarticl 4y agoThats "XML - the religion"
- kzrdude 4y agoBasically, he was in love with serialization and connecting services together, that part is cool. It's just a lot more diverse in serialization now than before. And a lot of these projects compete in reducing overhead - they are orders of magnitude more efficient than XML.
- timeon 4y agoI think it was called semantic web or Web 3.0.
- oaiey 4y agoAnd then history repeats and we call this now blockchain and the mess around it ;)