Web Development: The Web Twenty Years Later

This article discusses an important change in the way the internet is being developed. The discussion is led by Tim Berners-Lee, the man often given credit for inventing the world wide web.

He notes that the web was originally designed as an instrument to link documents to one another. This was what HTML (the basic tagging language the web is written) was designed to accomplish. More recently, with the wide spread development of API's, the web is becoming an instrument to link data together.

This important distinction turns the internet from a massive file display into a gigantic computer. We can now access, manipulate, and analyze data using only the web. Great stuff!