Keynote: The beginning, present, and future of web tech

Ever wondered why browsers look like they do? Why we use port 80, or why it’s "img src" and not "image source"? How did JS and CSS take over, and what could there have been instead? Who invented modern web dev tooling, where is it all heading next? If AI is taking over software, how might it look inside the browser?

This keynote is almost all demos! We’ll compile and run the first-ever web server and browser, and experiment live with many other landmark tools and frameworks from across the decades and the potential future. We'll see how the tech we use today still bears the fingerprints of brilliant innovations, terrible mistakes, and lucky moments of the past. Of course, the future remains our choice to make, so what will we choose?