{"id":1964,"date":"2019-03-12T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2019-03-12T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:25:18","slug":"the-state-of-the-world-wide-web-30-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2019\/03\/12\/the-state-of-the-world-wide-web-30-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The state of the World Wide Web – 30 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 30th anniversary (more or less) of Sir Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s unveiling of his proposal for the World Wide Web. Hard to believe that something so pivotal to every facet of our life now is so young. As people like me are so fond of saying, it seems like just yesterday we first heard about this amazing new \u201cthing.\u201d Then we went ahead with our lives, not realizing the revolution that was coming.<\/p>\n

The BBC published an interview with Berners-Lee today. The Web\u2019s creator admits that there are serious problems with what the Web has become. While it was originally \u201ca force for good,\u201d things have changed a lot and he\u2019s not sure about the future anymore.<\/p>\n

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Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Stop web’s downward plunge to dysfunctional future’ – BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But while there\u2019s plenty of doom and gloom to go around, Wired magazine has a story with Berners-Lee that is more hopeful<\/p>\n

30 Years On, Reports of the Web\u2019s Death Are Exaggerated. – Wired<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No matter what happens, the creation of the Web remains one of the \u00a0pivotal moments of modern history and it has been a treat to be around to help shape what it\u2019s become, for better or worse. I remain optimistic and grateful for founders and visionaries like Sir Tim Berners-Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 30th anniversary (more or less) of Sir Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s unveiling of his proposal for the World Wide Web. Hard to believe that something so pivotal to every facet of our life now is so young. As people like me are so fond of saying, it seems like just yesterday we first heard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,11,9],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-internet","tag-tim-berners-lee","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-vG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}