Jesse Clayburgh | Source | Evolving the Web at Protocol Labs

Before web 2.0 applications really scaled to all the users that they’re serving now, there was about a decade of infrastructure building from late eighties/early nineties, and all of that infrastructure building led developers that came into web 2.0 to develop really fast because they had really great dev tooling. And right now what we see is a significant lack of developer tooling to be able to build a lot of these lower level protocols.