{"id":22316,"date":"2019-03-17T20:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22316"},"modified":"2019-03-17T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:42:41","slug":"the-world-wide-web-at-30-we-got-the-free-and-open-internet-we-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22316","title":{"rendered":"The World Wide Web at 30: We got the free and open internet we deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheConnectedWorld-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Connected World\" class=\"wp-image-22317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheConnectedWorld-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheConnectedWorld-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheConnectedWorld-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TheConnectedWorld.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the internet that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he laid the groundwork for the World Wide Web 30 years ago today. Rather than the free and open online utopia he envisioned, &#8220;the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division,&#8221; he wrote in 2018, &#8220;swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas.&#8221; And, by God, he&#8217;s going to fix it &#8212; even if he has to break the entire system to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/03\/12\/world-wide-web-30-birthday-tim-berners-lee\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/03\/12\/world-wide-web-30-birthday-tim-berners-lee\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the internet that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he laid the groundwork for the World Wide Web 30 years ago today. Rather than the free and open online utopia he envisioned, &#8220;the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division,&#8221; he wrote in 2018, &#8220;swayed by powerful forces who use it for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The World Wide Web at 30: We got the free and open internet we deserve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22318,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316\/revisions\/22318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}