(highlight:: Participation from everyday people is essential for the web's existence
Key takeaways:
• The web came from the participation of hundreds of thousands of people who began putting up web sites and linking to each other.
• Innovation on the web was deliberately reserved to the edges of the network, allowing people to use the web protocols without rewiring the internet.
• Young people who weren't participants or working for some company were interested in what they could do with the web and this led to the creation of websites like Facebook and Google.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
The next one was participation. You know, we don't have the web because of a government or corporations. The web because hundreds of thousands of people began putting up web sites. And linking to each other. Anything you can point at at the web to day, from facebook to google, really came from, in those cases, very young people who weren't participants. They weren't working for some company. They were interested and what they could do with the web. And a lot of that had to do with the architecture of the internet and the web that was deliberately reserved the right of innovation to the edges of the network. So tim burnerslee didn't have to re wire the internet. He just sent out the web protocols and people used them.)
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