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A brief history of the Web ...and how one architectural choice got us into a very big mess Tara Vancil @taravancil taravancil.com bluelinklabs.com beakerbrowser.com What is the Web? 1-1 Ted Nelson coins hypertext A

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A brief history of the Web

...and how one architectural choice got us into a very big mess

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Tara Vancil

@taravancil

taravancil.com • bluelinklabs.com • beakerbrowser.com

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What is the Web?

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Ted Nelson coins hypertext

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References B A Referenced by A B

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DARPA allocates $1 million to create military computer network

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First transmission sent from UCLA to SRI “lo”

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“ENQUIRE is a method of documenting a system”

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made was made by includes is part of uses is used by describes is described by

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Apple releases HyperCard

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“Vague but exciting …”

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  • Hypertext Markup Language

○ HTML

  • Uniform Resource Identifiers

○ URI/URL

  • Hypertext Transport Protocol

○ http://

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

<h1>My page</h1> <p>Welcome to my page!</p> <p> <a href=”/portfolio.html”> My portolio </a> </p>

My page

Welcome to my page! My portfolio

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Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

https://example.com/images/cat.png scheme

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https://example.com/images/cat.png host

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

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https://example.com/images/cat.png path

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

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Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP)

? http://example.com/cat.png

✓

cat.png

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WorldWideWeb.app

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CERN releases WWW code into public domain

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World Wide Web Consortium

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Netscape creates JavaScript

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What is the Web?

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A standardized set of tools for transmitting and interacting with documents

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OPEN DECENTRALIZED SHARED

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OPEN DECENTRALIZED SHARED

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OPEN DECENTRALIZED SHARED

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“I’m still an optimist, but an optimist standing at the top of the hill with a nasty storm blowing in my face, hanging on to a fence.”

  • Tim Berners Lee, 2017
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HTTP ruined everything

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HTTP ruined everything Servers

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example.com

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Running a server

  • Difficult
  • Expensive
  • Not fun (for most people)
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Today Original vision

</>

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But … the centralized Web works!

  • Fast
  • Free
  • Reliable
  • Easy to use

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No privacy

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Walled gardens

✕ ✕

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Rigid, un-customizable apps

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#WomenBoycottTwitter

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What if we didn’t need servers?

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Peer-to-peer protocols

  • Dat
  • BitTorrent
  • IPFS
  • Tahoe-LAFS
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? http://example.com/cat.png

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? example.com/cat.png ? example.com/cat.png

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? example.com/cat.png ? example.com/cat.png

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The Web, but peer-to-peer

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Tara Vancil

@taravancil

taravancil.com • bluelinklabs.com • beakerbrowser.com