Keynote: Why web tech is like this
summary
The history traces concrete artifacts and surprises: a 730-line C server that listens on port 2784 then later 80 and only serves files via telnet, a NeXT browser that allowed inline editing, Mosaic introducing inline images after the IMG vs image source debate, PHP’s SQL injections, JavaScript in 10 days and CSS from mailing lists, ASP.NET’s viewstate base64 blob hack, Rails’ generators and migrations, Node on V8, WebAssembly running .NET, and modern meta-frameworks (SvelteKit/Astro) that blend server and client rendering.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Web tech overview
- 1:26Tim Berners-Lee and the web
- 4:36First web server demo
- 10:18Browser evolution
- 14:05IMG tag standardization
- 16:52Netscape vs Internet Explorer
- 18:35PHP web apps
- 20:17FrontPage and front-end
- 22:46JavaScript and CSS origins
- 25:14Web accessibility laws
- 27:23ASP.NET and the rise of object-oriented web development
- 31:36Ruby on Rails
- 36:09JavaScript rebirth
- 39:17Firebug revolution
- 41:26Node.js
- 42:49Single-page application frameworks and MVC in JavaScript
- 47:02TypeScript
- 49:07WebAssembly
- 51:14Modern trends
- 53:22Meta frameworks
- 59:39Conclusion
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