‘The Truth Is Paywalled.’ Internet Vets Lament the State of the ‘Open’ Web

The person who helped invent the internet, another who works to make it the world’s memory, one who advocates to keep it open, and a fourth who chronicled some of its bigger transformations met on a stage in Washington to talk about the state and fate of the web.

Their banter was less bubbly than you might have expected from the title of this event hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation: Wayback to the Future: Celebrating the Open Web.

Attendees heard mainly concerns from…