I want to tell you a story.

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Fifty percent of humanity are connected to the Web.

The Web we lost … … is not just design.

The Web is a plethora of awesomeness.

The Web is a plethora of creepiness.

The Web is a plethora of everything. And we have to preserve this.

The Web is for everyone.

The Web is for everyone?

Harassment isn’t harmless.

« The question to answer isn’t, ‹Have I made a place where people have the freedom to express themselves?› Instead we have to ask, ‹Have I made a place where everyone has the safety to exist?›» Tatiana Mac — Canary in a Coal Mine https://alistapart.com/article/canary-in-a-coal-mine-how-tech-provides-platforms-for-hate

« We must protect safety over speech.» Tatiana Mac — Canary in a Coal Mine

Doing the Right Thing

« If one company, like Slack or Airbnb, decides to do something about the role it’s going to play, it creates a perverse kind of FOMO for the rest: Fear of missing out of doing the right thing and standing on the right side of history.» Tatiana Mac — Canary in a Coal Mine

This is not only a tech problem. You can’t /kickban hate.

Means of Production

What is a computer?

« Was ist bloß passiert?» Knochenfabrik — Was ist bloß passiert Ameisenstaat, Vitaminepillen Records, 1997

« The most significant change they made, arguably, was semantic: programming, they decided, would heretofore be known as engineering.» Claire L. Evans — Broad Band Portfolio/Penguin; 2018; p. 77

Building Blocks

Hypertext Markup Language

Cascading Style Sheets

Java Script

Structure Layout Interaction

Building Blocks Actual blocks

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Tags are the Building Blocks of HTML

So, hmm, you write markup and then …?

HTML pages are just boxes.

And what’s up with all the nice things?

💻 Put-Something-in-the Internet-Already-Time 💻

Danke. Thank you. Merci. спасибо. Oscar Braunert code & design www.ovl.design o@ovl.design