web

“Every 10 years or so. You just get people holding the web back. Usually it's a monopoly power or a market power. And then the upstart comes because people still use the web.”

“So there's this strong evolutionary Force, this gradient forcing compatibility on the web. This is something a lot of people in computer science, especially programming languages, just hate because it means you really can't make incompatible changes except v…”

“In 1995, the web attracted more than 100,000 retailers. Which I would not have guessed that happened until, like, Shopify, but apparently that happened in 1985, with some spending more than a million dollars each on eye-popping sites. Yet worldwide retail sale…”

“From 1993 to 1996, the web grew from 130 sites to more than 600,000. And if you compute that rate of growth over that four-year period, it is 723% growth year over year for four years.”

“I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that Chrome kept the web alive. As a viable platform for applications.”