2 weeks Ago
Fighting for our web 0:00 / 1400.832 1× Listen to a voiceover of this post, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. Earlier this year, I gave a talk about the very important fight for our web, and how we can all play a part in it.
The recording is now up on YouTube, or scroll down to read a transcript. Recordings of all the other talks from XOXO will be going up on their YouTube channel over the course of this week, and I strongly recommend watching every single one of them. Good morning.
How is everyone? It's so great to be here. XOXO has been amazing. Some people I've talked to are surprised to find this is my first XOXO, despite the fact that I should have been here years ago and somehow wasn't.
But I'm very happy to be here before it's all over. So extremely happy. Some of you probably know me for my Web3 is Going Just Great project, which I started a couple of years ago, and you might be thinking I'm here to talk about crypto.
Don't worry. I'm here to launch my crypto token, actually! MollyCoin will be launching this afternoon. You can get in on the ground floor.
Very exciting. No. I'm actually here to talk about some of the good things on the web because I spend a lot of my time talking about all of the bad things.
I just wanted to ask: Do you remember the first time you felt like the web was magic? A lot of us, it's probably been decades, right, that you've been on the web, so it might be hard to think of that very first moment, but there's probably something that sticks out in your head. Take a second and just try to think about it. For me, it was Neopets.
How many of you played Neopets? Any Neopets people here? Awesome. So, I know it still exists—you can still go to Neopets.com today.
I'm so afraid to ruin the nostalgia that I have not looked at what it is today. Hearing they were exploring NFTs a couple of years ago almost killed me. But from what I remember of it, and bear with me because I was probably.
.. Molly White.
