BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoJust a reminder we are the future of social media.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square184fedilinkarrow-up11.98Karrow-down139cross-posted to: anticorporate
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minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month ago When open standards win, it’s usually because the platform was built on them, like email or podcasts. That’s the perception I’m trying to counter with the web technology examples I gave above. I was there building the web, on proprietary products, and I believed that, myself. I’m delighted to report that I was wrong. It took decades, but the far less visible corner of the web running on open technologies is now the only portion we currently still have. With a big delightful exception for Shockwave Flash, and the folks valiantly keeping it alive to preserve it’s part in gaming history.
That’s the perception I’m trying to counter with the web technology examples I gave above.
I was there building the web, on proprietary products, and I believed that, myself.
I’m delighted to report that I was wrong.
It took decades, but the far less visible corner of the web running on open technologies is now the only portion we currently still have.
With a big delightful exception for Shockwave Flash, and the folks valiantly keeping it alive to preserve it’s part in gaming history.