We all know the web’s certainly a different place now than it was ten or fifteen years ago, but Anil Dash points out exactly how—and to what extent—things have changed.
The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we’ve lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be. So here’s a few glimpses of a web that’s mostly faded away:
And then a few days later he writes an update on how to rebuild the web we lost.
