We had the web and it was glorious. Anyone with some basic technical skills, or the desire to learn them, could buy a domain and start publishing content on that domain in a matter of hours, if not minutes. But they took it from us. Not in the traditional sense, mind you, because technically we still have it. We can still publish content at will. No, their taking is little more devious. They built their silos and made it even easier for people to publish content...in the silos. And they let people do this for no money (not for free, mind you). And then they junkified all the great content with ads and algorithms and infinite scrolling and piss-poor organization that makes it damn near impossible to find your old content and that of others.

It was glorious and I loved it. I used TypePad, Movable Type, Wordpress, and even Drupal. I rolled my own more than a couple times. I've bought more domains than I care to admit. I've written about everything from breakfast musings to pending patent legislation.

I built Daystream to bring the glory back. It's a publishing system without the crap. No ads or algorithms, no infinite scroll, and logical content organization. It's the web as I fell in love with it, and my goal is to help other people discover the glory of what we used to have. And if we get enough people to realize that we still have it, well, maybe it will actually move the needle a bit.

We still have the web, and it is glorious. We just don't realize that we still have it, or that it's glorious.