But I'm afraid we're in its dying days, at least as far as the original ideals of the web were concerned.

In our rush to make browsers more powerful application platforms rivaling operating systems themselves, we raised the bar so high that we ensured the web's destruction: by guaranteeing that it would eventually be effectively controlled by a single browser maker.

In practice, this was probably always going to be Google, but if it wasn't Google it would simply have been some other Google-sized player.