The Open Web Is Dying
&gt; How do you put this genie back in the bottle?<p>You don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s over and done with. It started with Microsoft shipping Windows with Internet Explorer. And it probably ended with Facebook buying Instagram and WhatsApp.<p>Long gone are silly, goofy, pointless GeoCities sites, webrings, and phpBB forums for just about every topic you can think of. I mean, just think about how ridiculous it is that WikiLeaks has a Facebook page or that Snowden has a Twitter account. The final nail in that coffin is that a significant portion of the web is accessed these days via phones: which, by Google or Apple mandate, are extremely locked down ecosystems. You&#x27;ve still got a couple of crazy idealists out there like Stallman, but they&#x27;re far and few in between.<p>The open web is dead. Long live the open web.