Web Worker Daily has published the results and some of the submissions for their “2008 will be the year of the web worker because …” contest. It’s an interesting read.
To some, those postings could sound like a bunch of nonsense from a few lunatics. And to be honest with you, that’s not far from the truth right now. But this is not the first time we’ve been there. Today’s web workers include many technical people, who already saw the “this is nonsense” and “it will never happen” attitudes before, when Open Source Software was as much of a dream as free wireless access to the Internet, when Microsoft was an unshaken monopoly, when nobody could put “Linux” and “desktop” in the same sentence, when “web standards” were supported only by their unknown authors, when Altavista was thought to be the best search engine, when … You get the idea.
2008 will be the year of the web worker because web workers believe it will be so.