Today, the Web turns 20 eld old. In the TED speech embedded above, Tim Berners-Lee recalls how he invented the World Wide Web note eld ago. It was a “play project” that his politico permit him do on the side. Berners-Lee notes that the example Web was for conjunctive documents unitedly online, and then argues quite eloquently ground the Web today has to develop from linked documents to linked data.

Of course, that phylogenesis is already substantially low way. Just countenance at the discharge of APIs everywhere. The Web is decent a large interlinked computer, and computers requirement data. As more and more accumulation becomes linked crossways the Web, the more that it crapper be accessed, analyzed, and computed. As Berners-Lee says, “Data is relationships.”

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