The reason the Web needs rescuing is because it's not a particularly well-designed system that has been patched over and over again for the last quarter century. And now it has been degraded to a delivery layer for JavaScript apps, a poor RPC protocol and an overly complex UI rendering toolkit.
It should have had protocol-level technologies for preserving historic data, for search, for offline use, for authoring and publishing. If you look closely, cloud services created tools to easily do all those things and that's how they got in control.
"The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."
-- Alan Kay.
A lot of web devs were enraged by his comment without listening to the context. He was talking about the lack of protocol-level solutions for resilience of the Web.
It should have had protocol-level technologies for preserving historic data, for search, for offline use, for authoring and publishing. If you look closely, cloud services created tools to easily do all those things and that's how they got in control.
"The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs." -- Alan Kay.
A lot of web devs were enraged by his comment without listening to the context. He was talking about the lack of protocol-level solutions for resilience of the Web.