"If you degrade hyperlinks, and you degrade this idea of the internet as something that refers you to other things, you instead have this stationary internet where a generative AI agent will hoover up and summarize all the information that's out there, and place it right in front of you so that you never have to leave the portal."

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/beyond-the-link-tax-journalism-and-the-changing-nature-of-the-internet/

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Beyond the link tax: journalism and the changing nature of the internet - Halifax Examiner

By Philip Moscovitch This item originally appeared as VIEWS in Morning File, September 17, 2024 By now, it feels like we have heard most of the arguments and theories about the decline of journalism: The industry was too slow to respond to the new wa…

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The World Wide Web Consortium @w3c was founded 30 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfUBuIZkmQ

https://www.w3.org/about/history/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium

video via @caribou

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History

Read about the history of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded in 1994 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the urging of companies investing increasingly in the Web, to foster a consistent architecture and robust web standards.

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