It all started with Tim Berners-Lee
Who gave away his ideas for free,
Open source and freedom is the way to go
But with closed source we’ll make money you know,
So now we need rules about copyright and such
To stop the freedom fighters from enhancing too much,
Businesses and marketers seen potential as well
Though pop-ups and spam created a living hell,
Social networks will be this markets next target
But with fancier ads they will be smarter about it,
The internets an envirnment we all share and create
Is it public or private is the big debate?
Permenant or ephemeral, well its really both now
They keep a record of everything somewhere, somehow,
Java and ajax created web 2.0 for me
Bridging the invisiblity of difference we do not see,
Going from static to interactive, as it may be
Breaking the barriers of asynchonosity,
A new language created in the form of text
With symbols to indicate the emotions expressed,
We have too much information with robots to sort it
Before it happened, who’d have thought it,
So now we need the semantic web
So the robots understand what we have said.
Cool poem Jamie. One thing though…it’s Tim Berners-Lee
Wow Jamie – you definitely have a way with rhyming words that doesn’t take the underlying meaning away – well done!
I think I’ll need to read it again to make sure I understood everything – perfect for a blog…you’ve gotta keep your reader’s interested and questioning.
Thanks for posting it – have you written other poems about different topics?
I used to write a lot of poetry in my teens but haven’t had the chance lately. I’ll need to find my ‘centre’ again…maybe next holidays! Thanks Tess
Jamie
Cool poem. I wonder, have you read JP Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.” It’s an important document that has served to shape many parts of the Internet. I wonder how it would shape/reshape your thoughts here.
Peter