Keynote With Jen Simmons

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Celebrates the web’s 25th anniversary and credits Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau for a system that removes central authority, lets anyone link without permission, and actually absorbs older networks like Gopher Usenet and Listservs. Notes the Line Mode browser is still runnable and CERN rebuilt it. Argues HTML’s design choices—flexible, simple, forgiving and declarative—enable cross‑device universality despite messy devices and contrast with failed top‑down fixes like XHTML2 or locking everything in Flash.

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1. 0:00Love letter to HTML
2. 1:30Birth of the web
3. 4:29Why web crushed others
4. 6:22HTML’s flexible design
5. 8:11Why HTML deserves respect
6. 10:29Dangers of over-engineering
7. 11:55Happy birthday to the web

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