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by jasode 4209 days ago
I always enjoy recaps of tech timelines. Thanks for putting that together.

My wishlist of more web timelines with additional/different focus would include:

20 years of web advertising and tracking: this would outline the nuclear arms race between web authors and web browsers' user protections and google ranking algorithms. Stuff like cookies, the invisible 1 pixel image pingback, seo keyword spamming, etc

20 years of web technology failures: Java applets, XHTML, semantic web, etc. It's instructive to use hindsight to explain why some technologies/ideas don't get adopted.

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Open question: would VRML count as a failure?
The deep silence says Y E S...