It's the 30th anniversary of WWW. Over the last 30 years, do you think we made the right kind of progress with WWW? If yes, what are the advancements you appreciate? If no, what did we do wrong? Share your thoughts.
I think it is going in the right direction. One of the things I did not like about Internet is that the only way to make money out of it is using ADs. Only Google and Facebook make substantial profits out of their product.
But of late, the subscription model is catching up. Medium has no ADs and is subscription driven. The kind of product I wanted to see in the Internet from Day 1.
Also, the browser wars are over. Not many people are fixing their apps for IE or Edge. Even Microsoft is considering using Chrome browser engine for Edge for becoming standards compliant.
HTTP 2 is great with lot of features. The overhaul is much needed.
Needless to say, HTML5 and CSS3 has revolutionised the way web developers do their work. I especially love features like localStorage, serviceWorkers, CSS Grid to name a few.
We are going in the right direction, but of course, a bit slower. We write code and content at a frenetic pace. But the overall progress is right, but at a much slower pace.
I think we are not fully adapted to the technology and the consequences.
I cannot say what the right direction is. To me it makes life/things way easier.
The consequences of this also means that it amplifies a lot of behavior and it exposes you to the same degree. So everything that is good can be better and everything that's bad can get worse.
I think people who are 10 - 18 and 20 - 30 already have a different perspective than I have.
This is a really hard question, all I know is I like it. And I grew up with it, but the slow version ;D .... 56k modem at night so I got the cheaper rate and I could look at yahoo after only 1 minute loading time ;D ....
Thanks for invite! Interesting one to see what people write back. even though I support the advancement in technology, I do certainly think we have taken it a little too far with public data being in the public eye too much and this makes me question security a lot more for the WWW at least.
I wonder where the next ten years will take us ;)
Mark
I mean, it made Javascript the most used language, so technologically let's say mistakes were made...
But as a social phenomenon, connecting people and giving everyone access to information easily, is one of the best things to have happened to humanity.