CULTURE · EXPLAINER

The internet still has doors your feed never opens.

The web’s history is a history of connected information. Try following a few deliberate links instead of waiting for a feed to choose.

Electronic circuit boardIllustrative photograph · alerkiv / Unsplash

The World Wide Web grew around connected documents and shared standards. W3C’s history describes its role in developing open web standards with an international community.

A portal can make that original pleasure easier to find: a useful starting point, then a link to somewhere you did not know existed. It does not need to own every destination to be helpful.

Our challenge for your next coffee break: visit one digital collection, one project made by an individual, and one primary source behind a story you read. Notice how the experience changes when you choose the next step.

This is an editorial suggestion, not a claim that feeds are disappearing. Discovery can include both familiar platforms and the smaller corners of the web. ItsLit is being built to give those corners a little more room.

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Sources

  1. W3C: History
  2. W3C: A little history of the World Wide Web

What remains uncertain

This is commentary on browsing habits, not a measured claim about how all internet users behave.

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