The Free Web - The History of the Web

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Was just reading this as I love whenever Jay Hoffman publishes! This post is full of quotables.

There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it.

When Berners-Lee freed the web, he tied it to a promise. To make information free as well. Implicit in that promise was the idea that that information would come from all of us. That collectively, our experiences and our contributions would create a free and open web.

Put something on the web. And do it for free.

Here’s the thing about you. You know something nobody else does. You have a perspective that nobody else does.

Start a blog. Post an art project. Write a poem. Create a fan page. Contribute to a Wikipedia article you know something about. These little actions, these little contributions, are the best way we have to claw back to a truly free web.

And I don’t care. I’m contributing to the free web.

Now what one to include for my bookmark post?

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Really really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing! Another follow for my “web” category in my RSS reader~

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Don’t forget to go through his archives, so many gems in there

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