Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet | WIRED

Packed into a small conference room in Portland, Oregon, this rag-tag band of coders has quite the online pedigree, and their mission is far more ambitious than you might expect. They hope to jailbreak the internet.

"They call it the Indie Web movement, an effort to create a web that's not so dependent on tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Google – a web that belongs not to one individual or one company, but to everyone. "I don't trust myself," says Fitzpatrick. "And I don't trust companies." The movement grew out of an egalitarian online project launched by Fitzpatrick, before he made the move to Google. And over the past few years, it has roped in about 100 other coders from around the world...

Packed into a small conference room in Portland, Oregon, this rag-tag band of coders has quite the online pedigree, and their mission is far more ambitious than you might expect. They hope to jailbreak the internet.

"They call it the Indie Web movement, an effort to create a web that's not so dependent on tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Google – a web that belongs not to one individual or one company, but to everyone. "I don't trust myself," says Fitzpatrick. "And I don't trust companies." The movement grew out of an egalitarian online project launched by Fitzpatrick, before he made the move to Google. And over the past few years, it has roped in about 100 other coders from around the world...