The Shape of the Web

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Mosaic becomes the pivot point with 65 million new users in 18 months and the web grows to about four billion people while browsing moves to low‑end phones and costly mobile data. Performance work links to revenue at big retailers, developers use the Chrome User Experience Report and BigQuery to measure first contentful paint across sites, and engineers adopt service workers and PWAs to treat offline as normal. Reports show extreme constraints like one Wi‑Fi hotspot per 3,900 users in parts of India and teams organize International Women’s Day meetups to reduce friction for underrepresented technologists

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:3665M new users in 18 months in 1993.
3. 6:08make money on the web.
4. 7:05DeltaV Conference Lead on web performance
5. 8:18The Web is the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable.
6. 14:46this is why progressive web apps and service workers have been described as one of the greater updates to browsers in a decade.

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