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title: Inventing the future
date: "2002-05-11T12:00:00Z"
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description: I frequently revisit Tim O'Reilly’s article on the future of the internet. It offers essential insights into how network-based applications and decentralized platforms were evolving at the turn of the millennium.
keywords: [internet history, tim o'reilly, web 2.0, technology forecasting, network computing]
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[Inventing the future](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/09/future.html) by Tim O'Reilly is an article I have read and reread many times. If you want a quick idea of what the Internet will look like in a year, read it.