---
title: "Save the Web"
date: 2003-06-19
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Save the Web

Dave Winer posts a link to [a DaveNet from 2 years ago](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306094941/http://davenet.userland.com/2001/06/18/integrityInWebwriting):

> “If it were not possible to read my words without annotation, we’d have to invent a medium that allowed that. But in 2001 we already have such a medium, it’s called the Web.
> 
> We have tools and servers and all kinds of runtimes on all kinds of operating systems.
> 
> We don’t need or want another medium. So let’s not screw it up.
> 
> I think that’s what the writers are saying to the geeks.”

Those words don’t need any annotation 😉

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/06/19.html#a54))*