Semantics and the Web: An Awkward History
Channel: Simon St.Laurent
Date: 2021-09-05

Originally created for the amazing Balisage conference - https://www.balisage.net/

Opening - 0:00
Meaning and Markup - 0:57
In the beginning - 1:28
Markup appears (GML) - 2:23
Standardizing SGML - 3:51
HTML Emerges and Grows - 7:06
HTML Teaching and Tools - 9:10
The Power of Text Files - 11:32
Browser Wars - 13:24
Web Standards - 17:22
XML Emerges - 18:37
XML In and Beyond the Browser - 22:40
XML Gold Rush - 24:39
REST Post Office - 25:36
XML Expands - 26:28
JSON Emerges - 28:03
HTML5 Replaces XHTML - 29:59  (CSSquirrel - 32:15)
XML Shrinks - 33:25
Web Toolyard Changes - 35:05 (Semantic Markup - 36:00)
XML Tools - 37:00
Markup Church - 37:38
Inside the Sanctuary - 39:45

Conference paper at https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol26/html/StLaurent01/BalisageVol26-StLaurent01.html

HTML transcript available at http://simonstl.com/balisage/transcript09042021.html 

Text transcript available at http://simonstl.com/balisage/TRANSCRIPT09042021.txt


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Link to Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG - http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1623051423&count=1