WWW: World Wide Web, not Wealthy Westerners' Web
summary
Shows that reaching the next 4 billion needs engineering not slogans: Opera Mini’s Thor server farm in Iceland compresses pages up to 90% and delivers a single OBML blob that gets through flaky networks; 280M users rely on proxy browsers and blocking ads cuts payload ~40%. Progressive Web Apps plus a tiny manifest and service workers save storage (web apps ~1 MB vs native ~460 MB), and real examples — Flipkart reports 40% returning visitors, 63% higher conversions and 3× time-on-site. Service workers enable offline, push and background sync.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 8:12Indonesia
- 11:53Top handsets: USA
- 12:16Top handsets: Nigeria
- 14:10Progressive Web Apps
- 17:17Africa: mobile phone use
- 18:42Manifest file
- 20:13Tools
- 21:17Flipkart Lite
- 27:37Affordability of access
- 29:58Stop! Hammer Time
- 30:39Testing in India
- 31:24Battery life matters 2
- 38:24Bruce's law of Smartness
- 39:03Smartphone growth?
- 44:04Online work: Most important advantages
- 44:34Prosperity of the family
- 45:11Internet matters
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