I know everybody's been looking forward to this, not supposedly seeing me, but it's the

end.

So I'm going to try to make this as quick as possible.

I don't know, I guess, will my slides show eventually?

I sure hope so.

Shout out to the AV people, because they're the best!

[Applause].

All right.

The slides are supposed to show any don't know.

I hope so, because I'm not going to be able to act this out the whole time.

There we go!

So, quickly, I mean, I realise that I saw a speaker yesterday, and she kind of like

matched her slides with her outfit, so I thought I might do the same.

And so, if everything goes right, I'm going to disappear!

And I'm going to re-appear again.

It's like camouflage!

Okay, it worked.

Anyway, I thought that was kind of funny.

And you're going to find out I'm a bit of a comedian.

We will start this with a joke.

Is that cool?

Can we have a joke?

All right.

How many JavaScripters here?

I mean, it's kind of funny that I don't see all the hands up, but that's cool.

So, imagine if naughty by nature went to the TC39 meeting.

Hip-hop hurray!

Hey - oh, you didn't like that.

It's all good!

Anyhow, we're going to get things cracking.

My name's Henri.

My last name isn't Helvetica.

I thought it sounded cool.

I did anyways.

People might recognise me from my nays which is the avatar that I kind of like to.

I'm from the greatest city on the planet called Toronto.

It's super multi-cultural, and I didn't realise it until I left, and I was like, man, Toronto

is actually amazing.

If you're in the area, check us out.

Here is something you may not have known about Toronto.

Anyone own a Commodore 64 back in the day?

Commodore was founded in Toronto.

No doubt.

So we're going to get things going.

Welcome to the Shape of the Web.

It's a talk I thought about a while back, and sort of just to talk about where the web

has gone.

A lot of good things have happened.

A lot of technology was used to make things really sort of like friendly and - like the

great user experiences that we try to create, but I also felt that the technologists that

were involved were amazing but some who may have been left behind so we will have a conversation

about that.

It's really just a conversation.

So let's get cracking.

Now, first off, I want to thank JSConf EU for having me.

I've been watching this conference from a distance on Twitter and look at the photos

like this is amazing!

Look at the screen!

No, seriously, look at the screen!

I mean, I only an-wide at home, and I think that this ratio is like 15:2 which is bananas.

Talk about neck pains.

DevTools would be amazing on this screen, by the way!

First of all, X, ten years, and I come from music, so I could appreciate what they've

done here, the set-up.

I mean, it's absolutely elaborate, but I love that they've done this for a tech conference,

so can we please give JSConf a round of applause as well!

[Applause].

All right, that's enough!

I'm going to get jealous!

So, they've been around ten years, and I was thinking to myself, like, you know, I was

kind of writing this talk up, adding some notes, ten years.

Where was I ten years ago?

Like I said, I came from music.

I was able to pull this photo out.

I used to do lectures with the Red Bull Music Academy which is actually based out of Germany,

and I was doing a lecture here with Flying Lotus, a big deal for me at the time, ten

years a week from today.

It's pretty on point and on brand.

But the web.

The web's actually 30 years old.

And I was thinking to myself, like, man, 30 years old, that's kind of like a long time.

And I don't know where you were 30 years ago, but I remember when I first accessed the web,

the first thing I thought of was this.

And I don't know how many of you were able to sort of like be around this time where

you had to get a modem, and you made those telephone sounds, and that stuff, just to

get on the internet?

But it was great because I discovered a lot of things, and there was one place I used

to hang out - who remembers newsgroups here?

There we go.

This is where I hung out a lot, rec.hipohop and yes, I'm going to talk about hip-hop with

people I don't know.

This is the first time you start to connect with people from all parts of the world who

had access to the net.

Another thing that I did, as I had more and more access, I used to use search engines,

like everyone else, and who remembers Alta Vista.

There we go.

I was a big fan.

When that vanished, I was so sad.

But, what I also did was I started to surf the web, and I was a big Netscape Navigator

and Communicator fan.

Actually, there were a few browsers around thereafter, but this is the one that I was

using, and the big part about this one is when it was released, this is what one of

the early quotes from Andriesson himself, "This software is going to to change everything."

And it did.

Another quote came, things started exploding with the invention of the browser because

suddenly the internet was accessible to the average person.

And I mean, average, we will say sort of like model-class person who had a computer and

a modem, but it definitely opened things up.

You started to have that delight and discovery that I like to talk about.

When Netscape came out, it was extremely popular, 65 million users in 18 months, and part of

the reason was the fact that as much as the early web was, like, text, it was very academic,

they were actually able to bring images into the fold here, and what then happened is that

when we were surfing the net, we were accustomed to the lay-out text, images.

It was reading the paper.

And believe it or not, there was debate as to whether or not they were going to bring

images on to the web.

Some mild arguments, and the belief was that if they brought images on, there would be

like this onslaught of pornography.

And I'm here to say that they were absolutely wrong.

Right?

But, the fact is, for real, though, they believe that by opening it up, adding some images,

and letting people sort of expert, it was going to drive the web forward, and it actually

did.

Now, today, we are 4.3 billion users online.

I think that's phenomenal, but believe it or not, there's still room to grow.

And, you know, you might wonder that's an explosive growth.

What sort of drove that?

Well, this is kind of it right here.

This young lady's on a mobile phone.

I believe this is nothing that the they expected to see at the time.

This is like mid-1990s.

Who thought you were going to have a mobile device and be able to surf the web just as

powerfully as they did back then?

So this has allowed us to do a lot of different things.

We've been able to be very productive in life.

So what have we been able to do with sort of like little friction?

Pretty much everything.

I mean, we can make money, we manage money online, we can go on a date, we can go buy

clothes.

We can actually go rent a car to take your date out.

We can order fish, we can listen to one of my favourite songs called Fish, and we could

actually get phishing emails from African Princes, right?

But all jokes aside, man, we can actually read comics and make them accessible, comic

books, shot-out to Jessica.

[Applause].

No doubt.

For all the people that were trying to bring online, we could actually go offline.

This is what technology has allowed us to do.

Which is absolutely needed.

By the way, I downloaded the offline map for Berlin because I was not going to pay those

fees.

But we could actually create music in the browser as well.

Shout-out to Live :JS in the building!

This is what the technology has allowed us to do, very important.

This is the shape of the web as we see it growing right before our eyes.

So, the technology has been extremely important in getting these sort of things done.

And this is where we are going to sort of like see even more technology allow us to

do greater things thereafter.

Now, what about the technologist?

We may have been playing some amazing chords on some of the devices that we've seen out

there, you know, from keyboards to the MIDI controllers, but, unfortunately, there's been

a little bit of discord as well, and we're going to get into a few items that have been

bothering me a little.

Let's talk about technology.

There's an ongoing refrain, we know exactly what is going on, and it saddens me.

I mean, you just need to open up Twitter and wait five seconds before it hits you, and

I think that's sad.

It's been long discussed, you know, what needs to be done to retain talent, to attract talent,

and we still go out and sort of like trip over some of the main issues.

I mean, what do they talk about?

What do women talk about when they leave the industry?

The lack of career growth, salary, poor management, and, you know, when I read poor management,

I know exactly what they mean.

That's just being polite.

And the other part is actually what scares me, because the other, I feel, I know exactly

what is going on, but, again, it's being polite and not calling people out, because other

to me means this.

It's not fit for print, but we know exactly what is happening.

To me, that's absolutely not the way or the shape of the web needs to take.

Further on I'm going to share a little story, something I did did a few years ago.

International men's day happens once a year, March 8th.

And I got together with some buddies, I'm like let's rap about this.

I want to put an event for women to come out and enjoy themselves and listen to other women

in the industry.

This goes back to something I tried about ten years ago in music.

I really wanted to do a show with female producers.

I work in a certain pack of sound, and I knew there were producers out there, but when I

went knocking on some doors, I couldn't find any sponsors, so it got a little tough, but

I never forgot that.

When I had an opportunity to do something again, I did.

So, every year we put together in event called IWDTO, International Men's Day, and this is

a picture of 2015, and we've been doing it for five years now.

On the right to left, we have Lisa, who worked at the White House, an Obama hire, by the

way.

The lady in the middle, someone who I look up to very much, she works in performance.

She goes by the name of Tammy Everts who works at SpeedCurve.

An amazing person.

You need to follow her if you can.

On the left, I'm not sure if she is here, Mina Markham.

I would be happy for her to come down and share her story.

The most important part is the fact that, like I say, we do this every year, and it

warms my heart to be able to help out in a way - I might not be the best ally - but I

feel I'm doing something to make things work.

Why do I want to to this?

I want to make sure that we have moments like these, you know?

[Applause].

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Katie, we know exactly what happened there.

A great moment, even though shortly after we saw the trolls come out and sort of question

her.

Margaret Hamilton, as we know, coined the term "software engineering" but right there

she is sitting next to the stack of paper that was essentially her sort of like tracing,

or helping get the rockets up to the moon.

But one of my favourite photos is this one right here.

This is the Indian space research organisation.

And they're having a ball right there.