Every time I read about stuff like RDF and other 'modern open web' things, I just get sad, because... I can see the dream, but it never had any real chance of the widespread success that it was going for.

Commercial developers wouldn't adopt it because it doesn't align with their incentives. Hobbyists wouldn't adopt it because the terminology is impenetrable to them.

It's not hard to see why it never became The Thing Everyone Uses, and I'm pretty sure it could've been avoidable.

And like, there are plenty of cool ideas in there, that *could* have worked, had they been made more broadly accessible.

The Wikipedia article about SPARQL kind of rubs salt in the wound here, with a great example; it describes "subject-predicate-object", and states that it is analogous to "document-key-value".

One of those is easy to understand and remember. The other is the canonical term for this concept in RDF-land.

@joepie91 I do not agree with document-key-value and subject-predicate-object being the same, and it actually confuses the concept, imo even more

I was actually building wiki software based on SPO, it's a really neat concept (oh and ofcourse with it's own query language lmao)