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Synopsis
Leon Furze contrasts Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 vision of an open, decentralised World Wide Web with the “Narrow Web” of 2025—an internet funnelled through half-a-dozen corporate platforms that monetise surveillance, lock users into walled gardens and invert the original principles of universality and non-discrimination.

Instead of nostalgia, Furze offers an action plan for “widening the web”: own your content on personal sites, value meaningful connections over algorithmic reach, explore federated and open-source alternatives such as Mastodon, and teach younger users the founding ideals of the web so they can imagine something better.

Originally published at: https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/13/the-narrow-web/

Links
https://leonfurze.com/2025/07/13/the-narrow-web/
https://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web
https://www.w3.org/Consortium/
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
https://joinmastodon.org/

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