The Web That Never Was
summary
A speculative history that maps how different business and technical choices could have produced a very different web ecosystem. It examines concrete turning points—IBM’s 1980 PC OS deal, Netscape’s founding choices, early CERN naming/standards decisions—and imagines alternate stacks and platforms that would have replaced Microsoft, Windows, Firefox, Google and JavaScript.
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chapters (40)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36Who is Dylan
- 5:18ARPANET
- 6:38DNS
- 9:08The Playing Field
- 10:30Microcosm
- 12:59The World Wide Web
- 17:05HTML
- 22:30Perfect Digital
- 23:05NCSA
- 23:35Nintendo
- 24:55PerfectDigital
- 26:03PerfectOffice
- 27:42STAAR
- 28:26Blub Paradox
- 29:55Hyper Lisp
- 32:01Gem 95
- 33:06Steve Jobs
- 33:58BIOS
- 34:35Opera
- 35:37Grid
- 36:03Backrub
- 38:04Y2K
- 38:29Star Wars
- 39:10The Next Book
- 40:12NextStep
- 41:10The Grid
- 42:19Everything Has Gone Quiet
- 42:58Reality
- 43:54How much of that is true
- 44:18The early 1980s
- 44:58What would you have done differently
- 46:27What else was being done
- 46:52RTF
- 47:12AutoCAD
- 48:24Netscape
- 48:59Chello
- 49:23Apple bought Next
- 49:46Google tried to sell
- 50:38Questions
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