A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week. As if the web will turn into The Well, or something. But I am seeing the fediverse, standards-based web builders like Eleventy, and open newsletter platforms like Ghost and Buttondown (that both support the web), and I just don’t agree that the web is old-fashioned. Quite the opposite, it’s only just getting started (again)!
@ricmac to my students, "the web" is what their parents used. "apps" is what they used all their lives. The web has always been around. To them, it is as old as telephones or dishwashers.
@claudius Yes and I’ve had similar conversations with youngsters. But for your students, when they use their laptops and open a browser, are they aware that is the web? Do they see the browser as an app? (because of course it is) #JustCurious
@ricmac Yes, the Web never went away… it was just consigned to the back room by the seductive power and convenience of the bright and shiny social platforms. But now finally some of that bright and shiny has faded for some people, and they are seeing what has developed in that back room while so many were looking at the shiny…
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