From the archives:
If there was ever an instance of technologists overengineering a solution without considering how it would be used to solve the problem, the Semantic Web is a great example.
Was reminded of this when I saw Dave Winer mention RDF. It was meant to be the future of the web — the original Web 3, before those peddling blockchain rubbish commandeered the name. I’m really glad that it went nowhere. Building for the web would’ve been bloody awful otherwise.