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The World Wide Web
It has been three decades since the World Wide Web was born. In that time, it has grown from a simple little text-oriented protocol to the massive JavaScript/HTML/CSS-driven behemoth that we all know and pretend to love.
But it’s awful, isn’t it? I mean, what we want to do on the Web and what the tools we use allow us to do are two very different things.
The Web was born to share text—nowadays, that’s the last thing we want to do. We don’t need another markup language. We don’t need to know the style sheets. All we want is what’s beyond HTML. Come on—sing along.
The future of the Web, from my point of view, will be based upon simple distributed processing. We will load programs into our workstations that communicate with ...
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