Agree. Beyond that, I'd say that it is more of an expression of culture than it is an expression of technology. (Carefully noting that these cannot be easily separated, anyway.) "The Web" as currently practiced is more of a craft (and at best, and art) than it is a technical exercise.
Certainly, is inelegant and even ugly in places: much like the tool we humans (maybe should) value most: natural language. Natural language is fraught with inconsistencies and wtf's we have kind of made it up as we've gone along (standards academies notwithstanding).
Think of how lovely an eflorescence it is of the workings of the mind, and how well it serves one of our deepest aspirations: to connect with another thinking being and share our thoughts.
Certainly, is inelegant and even ugly in places: much like the tool we humans (maybe should) value most: natural language. Natural language is fraught with inconsistencies and wtf's we have kind of made it up as we've gone along (standards academies notwithstanding).
Think of how lovely an eflorescence it is of the workings of the mind, and how well it serves one of our deepest aspirations: to connect with another thinking being and share our thoughts.