Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."

But he adds:

"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."

#PublicDomain #OpenInfrastructure #Solid #Web

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Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."

But he adds:

"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."

#PublicDomain #OpenInfrastructure #Solid #Web

»Deutsche Bank warnt — Nur KI-Blase halte US-Wirtschaft noch zusammen:
Die KI-Blase werde eher früher als später platzen, weil sie nicht genug Einnahmen generieren könne, um die benötigte Rechenleistung aufrechtzuerhalten.«

Ergibt dies dann massenweise "günstige" Webserver oder haufenweise leerstehende digitale Räume? Auf jeden Fall wird KI teurer, wenn deren Werbepropaganda ausgeschöpft ist.

💸 https://www.golem.de/news/deutsch-bank-warnt-nur-ki-blase-halte-us-wirtschaft-noch-zusammen-2509-200576.html

#kiblase #ki #USWirtschaft #db #server #webserver #web #deutschebank #ai

»Deutsche Bank warnt — Nur KI-Blase halte US-Wirtschaft noch zusammen:
Die KI-Blase werde eher früher als später platzen, weil sie nicht genug Einnahmen generieren könne, um die benötigte Rechenleistung aufrechtzuerhalten.«

Ergibt dies dann massenweise "günstige" Webserver oder haufenweise leerstehende digitale Räume? Auf jeden Fall wird KI teurer, wenn deren Werbepropaganda ausgeschöpft ist.

💸 https://www.golem.de/news/deutsch-bank-warnt-nur-ki-blase-halte-us-wirtschaft-noch-zusammen-2509-200576.html

#kiblase #ki #USWirtschaft #db #server #webserver #web #deutschebank #ai

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Ça se voit que je n’arrive pas à écrire en oppre-cis ? N’hésitez pas à partager largement, le but est que le lien arrive quand quelqu’un cherche vraiment cette question.

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> The Navigate menu has BACK and NEXT and PREVIOUS commands. The last two should not be mixed up with the FORWARD command of today’s browsers. They do not reverse the BACK operation – they mean to go back a step and then take the next or previous link from the same page. NEXT and PREVIOUS commands make it possible to leaf through the Web like a book page by page with a single keystroke.

We’ve tried to do a similar thing in Nyxt, but we encountered the fact that modern #Web is too interlinked. So you can’t just follow the next link after the one you visited—it’s likely to be garbage. Still, we devised two approaches to this problem:

- Cruise Control mode—select a set of links that interest you and leaf through them in a oace suiting you.

- Tree-like browser history—allows visiting next/previous “sibling” links (links that were opened from the same page.) Not a navigation system per se, and requires visiting pages before leafing through. But I still love the idea. And I wrote my BA thesis on it!

> WorldWideWeb/Nexus is an integrated environment for browsing and editing #Web pages following the wysiwyg paradigm. It is as easy to read pages as to write them. For example just one command with the shortcut Cmd-Shift-N is needed to create a new #HTML page and link to it from the previous text selection. The user is prompted to specify a new URI and the page content is sent to the server with the #HTTP POST method.

The original paper mentions #W3C Amaya as the only modern browser implementing this feature, but it also reminds me of #Gemini #Titan protocol. Both good ideas and security nightmares!

> The Navigate menu has BACK and NEXT and PREVIOUS commands. The last two should not be mixed up with the FORWARD command of today’s browsers. They do not reverse the BACK operation – they mean to go back a step and then take the next or previous link from the same page. NEXT and PREVIOUS commands make it possible to leaf through the Web like a book page by page with a single keystroke.

We’ve tried to do a similar thing in Nyxt, but we encountered the fact that modern #Web is too interlinked. So you can’t just follow the next link after the one you visited—it’s likely to be garbage. Still, we devised two approaches to this problem:

- Cruise Control mode—select a set of links that interest you and leaf through them in a oace suiting you.

- Tree-like browser history—allows visiting next/previous “sibling” links (links that were opened from the same page.) Not a navigation system per se, and requires visiting pages before leafing through. But I still love the idea. And I wrote my BA thesis on it!