Dylan Beattie
World Wide Wonderland: The State of the Web
It's been over thirty years since Tim Berners-Lee sent a proposal to his boss for something he called the "world wide web", and got back a three-word comment "vague... but exciting!" The web has become part of every aspect of our lives - communication, commerce, entertainment - and along the way, given software developers a powerful, flexible platform to craft amazing things with code and share them with the world. But for a lot of developers out there, it's been a long time since the web felt exciting. The media hype has long since moved on - to social networks, mobile, crypto, NFTs, AI, and whatever the Next Big Thing might be - and here in 2025, if you're working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the pillars of the web, it's easy to fear that you're getting left behind. Well, you're not. The open web, a web built on standards and protocols, is the foundation of our connected society, and amazing new things are being added to web standards all the time, Join Dylan Beattie for a journey around the state of the web: what's new, what's coming soon, and why the web is more important - and exciting - than ever before.
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