{"id":10986,"date":"2007-12-18T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/2008-will-be-the-year-of-the-web-worker-because\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T14:43:29","slug":"2008-will-be-the-year-of-the-web-worker-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/2008-will-be-the-year-of-the-web-worker-because\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 will be the year of the web worker because …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Web Worker Daily<\/a> has published the results and some of the submissions for their “2008 will be the year of the web worker because …<\/a>” contest.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an interesting read.<\/p>\n

To some, those postings could sound like a bunch of nonsense from a few lunatics.\u00c2\u00a0 And to be honest with you, that’s not far from the truth right now.\u00c2\u00a0 But this is not the first time we’ve been there.\u00c2\u00a0 Today’s web workers include\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

2008 will be the year of the web worker because web workers believe it will be so.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an interesting read. To some, those postings could sound like a bunch of nonsense from a few lunatics.\u00c2\u00a0 And to be honest with you, that’s not far from … Continue reading 2008 will be the year of the web worker because …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[764,751,79,1084,124],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-opinions","tag-people","tag-trends","tag-web"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10596,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/07\/web-worker\/","url_meta":{"origin":10986,"position":0},"title":"Web worker","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Am I a web worker? 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