I’d had this draft ready and fortuitously found out today is World Wide Web Day even though nobody knows why. We tend take the web for granted, so it is nice that there is at least a nominal day for it. (The web is only 35 and it took Earth a few billion years to get a day named for it.) The web is an incredible achievement, an attempt to build a “universal linked information system” that has surpassed the ambitions of its creator. But it is also under threat, with a few big players consolidating power on the web, eroding the open principles that helped it thrive.