The Web That Never Was

Explore an alternate history of the World Wide Web in this thought-provoking conference talk. Delve into a fascinating narrative that examines how pivotal moments and decisions in technology could have drastically altered the digital landscape we know today. Discover a world without Microsoft, Windows, Firefox, Google, or JavaScript, and imagine the potential consequences of different choices made by key figures in computing history. Investigate how alternative platforms, protocols, and programming languages might have shaped a parallel software industry. Gain insights into the complex interplay of innovation, marketing, and timing that influenced the web's evolution. Challenge your understanding of digital history and contemplate the fragile nature of technological progress in this engaging exploration of "the web that never was."

Intro
Who is Dylan
Amazon
Evolution
IBM PC
ARPANET
Hosts File
DNS
HTTP
Microcosm
Twilight Zone
World Wide Web
Grid
Transfer Protocol
Surf
CERNorg
Lucky Break
Markup Language HTML
NCSU Mosaic
Digital Research
CPM
Steve Jobs
Next Stations
Perfect Digital
Silicon Graphics
Nintendo
GridPerfect
Secure Application Frame Encryption
Lisp
Paul Graham
Java
Hyper Lisp
Jem95
Apple
BEUS
BLINK
Goggle
The Millennium Bug
The Next Generation
The Next Book
Nexus Browser
The Computing Industry
The Metaverse
Imagine
How close were we
IBM won
MicroSoft
SQL
Rich Text
Paul Grahame
Netscape
CCleaner
OS X
Tim BernersLee
Questions