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Despite the lull in development of the semantic web of the 1990s, by the late 2000s, I was beginning to see a way forward. I have always believed the web should be a two-way thing: a place to write, as well as to read. Richard McManus, a journalist and blogger, captured this spirit in a blog he named the 'read-write web'. It was also a big value with the W3C team: my original WorldWide Web.app on the NeXT had been an editor, not simply a browser: an application, like a word processor, which allows you to create and modify material as well as just read it. At INRIA, the French national computer science lab, Vincent Quint and Irene Greif had built a hypertext browser-editor, where you could even edit diagrams. The W3C website was set up so that you could submit your own web page. And of course, Wikipedia is a great realization of this idea. So for documents, we can set up a read-write web.