▲ | exiguus 4 days ago | |
What fascinates me about the World Wide Web is that all the technology is open, and the specifications are open. This includes everything from BIND, Apache, and Gecko to codecs and the operating systems that run the web, as well as all the working groups of the W3C and their specifications. You can teach yourself everything. You can read the specifications, implement them, and even improve them. You can create your own software and share it with others. You can build your own website, host it on a server, and make it accessible to the world. For me, this is the essence of the World Wide Web: it is open and accessible to everyone. It makes knowledge accessible to everyone in the world, regardless of how poor, educated, or disabled you are. It's kind of a communist utopia, where everyone can participate and contribute. Now, why do I write this and use the term "communist utopia"? Because I think that the World Wide Web is a great example of how open standards and open technology can create a better world. Even when capitalism tries to take over the web, it is still a place where everyone can participate and contribute. And this brings me to the point of this article: Telling people what not to do and what to do when sharing content is, in my opinion, not the way to go. Instead, we should focus on how to make the web a better place for everyone. We should focus on how to make it more accessible, more inclusive, and more open. We should focus on how to make it a place where everyone can participate and contribute freely. And by freely, I mean without losing your autonomy or paying with private information. |