My idea for my opening keynote was to revisit the web of 1996, the first year TCC happened as a totally online conference<\/a>, to speculate how, if any, the web 20 years later has progressed:<\/p>\n In 1996, the first year of TCC, the web stumbled from an internet oddity into mainstream popularity. Now, a scant 20 years later, most students entering higher education have never lived in a world without the web; to them it is not even a technology.<\/p>\n The clues to projecting what a future web might be can be found in the present; there are already ways of using it beyond links and pages. By looking at current ideas and examples, by addressing the issues of assertion of our digital selves, web making, the Indie web movement, and a federated wiki, we can confidently glean a glimpse of what the web could be in another 20 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I got this idea to\u00a0 Thanks to the Internet archive\u00a0I was able to do some web paleontology<\/a>\u00a0find\u00a0all of the archives from the 1996 conference<\/a>\u00a0including the papers, the keynotes done via links and email, even the logs from the MOO sessions (not MOOC, MOO!). Conference founder\u00a0Jimmy Shimabukuro blogged his notes, old emails, and thoughts on the conference<\/a>\u00a0too.<\/p>\n The presentation was done in old school HTML, using a format I had been using myself in that time period to do web-based presentations<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can find the presentation I used at http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/stuff\/tcc15<\/a><\/p>\nborrow<\/del>\u00a0steal the idea of\u00a0Bret Victor\u2019s brilliant 2013 The Future of Programming talk<\/a>\u00a0where he pretended to be talking about the present from the year 1973.<\/p>\n
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