the web platform

will happen, happening, happened

23 Nov 2018

Jakob Cosoroabă

 Jakob Cosoroabă

spends too much time on

• Twitter
• Medium
• Reddit
• 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

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.