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- Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce — but that doesn’t mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of the consequences. --
- So on Tuesday, Mr. Berners-Lee gathered in San Francisco with other top computer scientists — including Brewster Kahle, head of the nonprofit Internet Archive and an internet activist — to discuss a new phase for the web. + Neocities has acquired upward of 100,000 users in its relatively short lifespan, which is a testament to its focus on creative web design and its offer of cost-free hosting without host-branded ads — a service that’s the exception rather than the rule in the industry. By embracing ingenuity and a templateless-approach, the organization has effectively picked up where early hosts have left off — with a crucial difference. Neocities provides the modern tools, such as an in-browser HTML editor and a command line prompt, among other features, that make web development a bit more accessible to today’s crop of web visionaries.+
It's easy to assume that those attending the Web 1.0 Conference in Portland, Oregon are caught up on an obsolete era of the internet. The conference's organizers, however, think the lowly HTML website may very well be the future of the web.