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| rektide wrote:
| Mailing List Link: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-
| dev/202109/msg00001.html
|
| Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qDvd5uOx8
|
| Transcription:
| http://simonstl.com/balisage/TRANSCRIPT09042021.txt
|
| Pairs well with Brian Kardell's History of the Web series (2015),
| which covers some of these bits & is a delightful enjoyable read
| as well: https://bkardell.com/blog/Brief-ish-History-of-The-Web-
| Part-...
|
| Also, note, very little about "semantic web". The word semantic
| does not appear in the transcript (other than as the title).
| tannhaeuser wrote:
| The History of the Web series deserves its own post for sure.
| But going by the publication date, unlike the OP, it seems to
| end just before it all went south ;)
| miguelrochefort wrote:
| I never understood why the semantic web failed.
|
| Is there anything better than RDF?
| abbe98 wrote:
| Did it fail or did it just turn out different from what many
| imagined?
|
| I mean RDF is alive and well and Schema.org is widely adopted.
| [deleted]
| austincheney wrote:
| Two things killed it:
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| 1. The simultaneous emergence of walled gardens
|
| 2. The concepts were too challenging for most developers to
| fully grasp and too distant to inspire common interest.
|
| You have to remember the web prior to 2005. Nobody had heard of
| Facebook and Twitter did not exist. Google was just a search
| engine and data auction. Most of the web displayed static
| content dynamically generated by either ASP, PHP, or TCL. Most
| of the people on here have probably never even heard of TCL.
|
| Back then all the value of online businesses were some form of
| payment processing, think ecommerce, or application processing
| like data mining. The idea that the data itself had value aside
| from the products and services it represented was known but not
| fully realized. This wasn't even deliberate.
|
| Emerging online services needed to generate revenue to repay
| their investors and in most cases the only thing that stuck was
| online advertising. You can show ads to anybody, but the more
| precisely targeted those ads became and the more they followed
| users across third party sites the more valuable they became.
| You have to understand that in most cases these are high
| quantity but nearly worthless transactions so anything that
| could raise the value of a transaction is a really big deal.
| This is how the walled gardens happened.
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