A Love Letter to HTML, a keynote at Fluent Cof

March 2014 is the 25th Anniversary of the beginning of the web. Why did HTML take off, and what qualities about it to we need to keep in mind today?

A Keynote Talk at the 2014 Fluent Conference, March 2014.

6. photo by Maximilien Brice, © 2012 CERN. Used with permission.
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12. photo by Anna Pantelia /CERN. Used with permission.
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