the web platform
will happen, happening, happened
23 Nov 2018
Jakob Cosoroabă
Jakob Cosoroabă
spends too much time on
- Medium
- HackerNews
What is a Platform?
stuff to build stuff upon
:s/stuff/software/g
History
(let's keep it short)
~13.772 billion years ago
6 August 1991
The Pulse of Web Technologies
Open
Open
- Low barrier to entry
- No proprietary toolset
- No explicit censorship
- Distributed
Censorship
in other platforms
Diverse
Diverse
- Every Device
- Every Language
- Every Country
Why so popular?
Cornerstones of the Web
Linkable
Indexable
Composable
Ephemeral
Secure
Now(ish)
Google Maps Go
WebGL
https://www.shadertoy.com/
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed
William Gibson
WebUSB
WebAssembly
compile to WebASM
Share a terminal session over WebRTC
https://maxmcd.github.io/webtty/
Photopea is a free Photoshop clone that works in web browser
https://www.photopea.com/
in Browser Machine Learning
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/
Web-Blockchain?
Blurred Lines
(not the song)
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
- Book by Tim Wu
web.dev
Let's build the future of the web.
Stay in contact
@jcsrb
jakob@cosoroaba.ro
The Web Platform 2018
By Peter-Jakob Cosoroabă
The Web Platform 2018
We have many platforms available, but the Web will be, is, and was the most open, accessible and popular platform for development. Together we explore why, and especially what awaits us in the future.
