Ask HN: What are examples of British Web Innovations?

Re:Ask HN: What are examples of British Web Innovations? by ev1 on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:42PM (#26306395)

Almost all web innovation I've seen has not come from universities, that includes US based. They come from advertising companies, at least lately. Angular? Ad company. React? Ad company. QUIC/HTTP3? Ad company. WebUSB? Ad company. WebSocket? Ad company. WebRTC? Ad company.

The research that happens in universities seems a lot more theoretical, like interacting with WiFi, pathfinding, robotics, health-tech.

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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of British Web Innovations? by typeengineering on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:01PM (#26306683)

Yes it's true I don't think that universities are directly involved in that sort of innovation. What I meant is that they're supposed to produce smart people who invent something new, not necessarily via academic research. Thanks for that list too. Regarding the repeated "ad company", it would be nice to see something modern-day Adobe which isn't an ad company and Macromedia that are _real_ software companies.

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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of British Web Innovations? by _448 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:42AM (#26314231)

The https://solidproject.org came out of MIT.

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