The open Web does not really exist anymore, and may never have existed in the first place.

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• The internet's openness and scrapability were a contingent historical accident, not inevitable — it could easily have developed as a closed system instead. RSRobin Sloan23 Sept 2026
• The success of open source software was not inevitable and would have seemed improbable as recently as the 1990s. RSRobin Sloan23 Sept 2026
• Nothing about the web technically prevents a return to what people loved about the old web; the good old days are available and would be easier to build now than they ever were. MWMolly White1 May 2024
• Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it. MWMolly White7 Oct 2024
• The web does not have to be as complicated as it has become DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson30 Sept 2024

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