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Mar 17, 2018 at 15:30
It's amazing how little platforms change philosophy after creation. The web started as an open project and remains so after wide deployment. It has not made Tim Berners-Lee rich. Twitter, however, has a single owner, so its growth lead to an IPO and the founders making money.

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How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty
How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty
Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit, and my talk was about how the people who founded the web with the idea of having an open, decentralized system ended up building a system that is increasingly monopolized by a few companies -- and how we can prevent the same things from happening next time.