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On the occasion of the World Wide Web's fifteenth birthday, the author comments on how it is full openness and Open Standards that made the Internet the success it has become, and why the current technological and legal climate would make a similar revolution impossible today.
[ED.- Without open standards, without openness, without decentralisation, there would have been no Internet. Think about it next time someone praises proprietary standards - Tsela]
...as to why the Web is important, irreplacable even.
I have noticed that I have been more and more taking a keen interest in "historical lies", things that are just not so, though everyone (including Hollywood) believes them to be. And heaven knows there's a lot of that about.
This evening on Finnish television: movie hour, "U-571". I notice I have seen it before, and instead of watching, google for U571. Lots of links come up, roughly split between the movie and the "real story behind the story". Try it!
(For fairness's sake, the movie makers do admit that theirs is a work of fiction. Just not very prominently :-( )
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I have noticed that I have been more and more taking a keen interest in "historical lies", things that are just not so, though everyone (including Hollywood) believes them to be. And heaven knows there's a lot of that about.
This evening on Finnish television: movie hour, "U-571". I notice I have seen it before, and instead of watching, google for U571. Lots of links come up, roughly split between the movie and the "real story behind the story". Try it!
(For fairness's sake, the movie makers do admit that theirs is a work of fiction. Just not very prominently :-( )