Twenty years ago—when the web was just a decade old—Tim Berners-Lee gave this talk, looking backwards and forwards.
For me the fundamental Web is the Web of people. It’s not the Web of machines talking to each other; it’s not the network of machines talking to each other. It’s not the Web of documents. Remember when machines talked to each other over some protocol, two machines are talking on behalf of two people.
This is a terrific presentation from Paul. He gives a history lesson and then focuses on what makes the indie web such a powerful idea (hint: it’s not about specific technologies).
Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.
This is the flyer that Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau distributed at the Hypertext 91 Conference—the one where their submission was infamously rejected.
The WWW project merges the techniques of information rerieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.
The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. lt aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
I really like this experiment that Jim is conducting on his own site. I might try to replicate it sometime!
“Be linkable and accessible to any client” is a provocative test for whether something is “of the web”.
I gave a short talk on a big topic.
2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.
There’s a video and a transcript of the talk.
Questions and answers from the opening talk of an online conference.
Telling the origin story of the web.