The Web That Never Was

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A speculative historical tour imagining alternative outcomes that would have changed the web’s ecosystem—for example IBM hiring Digital Research instead of Microsoft for the PC OS, Netscape never forming, or different choices at CERN. The talk maps how those counterfactuals would alter platforms, protocols and programming languages, resulting in a web without Microsoft, Windows, Firefox, Google or JavaScript. It focuses on concrete hypothetical shifts in companies, technologies and decisions to show how the modern web might have been radically different.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:56Who is Dylan
3. 1:56Amazon
4. 2:27Evolution
5. 5:10IBM PC
6. 6:09ARPANET
7. 7:26Hosts File
8. 8:38DNS
9. 10:39HTTP
10. 12:09Microcosm
11. 13:40Twilight Zone
12. 14:19World Wide Web
13. 15:15Grid
14. 15:36Transfer Protocol
15. 16:24Surf
16. 18:15CERNorg
17. 18:44Markup Language HTML
18. 22:01NCSU Mosaic
19. 22:45Digital Research
20. 23:36CPM
21. 24:07Steve Jobs
22. 24:34Next Stations
23. 25:18Perfect Digital
24. 26:25Silicon Graphics
25. 26:56Nintendo
26. 29:45GridPerfect
27. 30:26Secure Application Frame Encryption
28. 31:44Lisp
29. 32:13Paul Graham
30. 33:47Java
31. 35:37Hyper Lisp
32. 38:31Jem95
33. 39:00Apple
34. 39:44BEUS
35. 40:39BLINK
36. 43:24Goggle
37. 44:27The Millennium Bug
38. 44:54The Next Generation
39. 45:40The Next Book
40. 46:36Nexus Browser
41. 47:23The Computing Industry
42. 48:17The Metaverse
43. 49:26Imagine
44. 49:53How close were we
45. 50:06IBM won
46. 50:19MicroSoft
47. 50:55SQL
48. 51:27Rich Text
49. 51:40Paul Grahame
50. 53:08Netscape
51. 53:48CCleaner
52. 53:58OS X
53. 54:59Tim BernersLee
54. 56:57Questions

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