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This “we care about publishers!” dance is a staple of Silicon Valley. Apple briefly promised to save the news business with the iPad, convincing publishers around the world to build bespoke tablet magazines before mostly abandoning that project. Facebook remains in a perpetually whipsawing relationship with the media, too: it will promote stories in the News Feed only to later demote them in favor of “Meaningful Social Interactions,” then promise publishers endless video eyeballs before mostly giving up on Facebook Watch.
Google AMP: How Google Tried to Fix the Web by Taking It Over - The Verge
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On July 28, 1993, a group of about twenty people met at the O’Reilly offices in Cambridge to talk about the web. This special event was called the World-Wide Web Wizards Workshop (WWWW) In attendance were a group of the web’s earliest pioneers, including its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, one of its fiercest advocates, Dale Dougherty, and some of the first browser makers, Marc Andreessen and Lou Montulli.
When the Wizards of the Web Met - The History of the Web
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The problem is that many non-standard headers eventually do become standard. When that happens, if you used an X- prefix, now you either have to change the name (breaking all existing implementations) or standardize the X- prefix (defeating the point of the prefix entirely, and adding annoying noise to the name forever).
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