This talk is an exploration of how the web has evolved since its humble beginnings in the early 1990s, from high and low points in the trenches of the Browser Wars to the enviable opportunities and sizable challenges we face today, and draws the connections between the choices made then and the landscape we find ourselves in today.

Chris Wilson has worked on NCSA Mosaic, IE and now Chrome as an Open Web advocate. He loves enabling awesome user experiences on the web.