Django is to Web…
A thought inspired by a post of my favourite catalyst @w2wai
Another flight of fancy from music to digital communication.
Django Reinhardt has been such a guitar hero as Jimi Hendrix was, but few seem to know it. How is he related to the Web?
- Improvisation. Django was great in ad libbing.
In the new for of the Web, “liquid” ability in reacting to the context is all. - Multi-ethnicity. Django was a living meltin’ pot (Belgian, Gipsy, French, North African, American…).
The Web has to be universal. - Accessibility. Django underwent an injury which made inaccessible to him his former instrument, banjo. If guitar hadn’t been accessible and usable, what we’d got would have been one more gipsy on the road begging.
The Web can’t be other than accessible. - Second birth. After the accident, Django fortuitously recovered in spite of those who said he’d die if he wouldn’t accept surgery, which he didn’t.
Web is allegedly born at least 2 times, and counting. - Swing. What’s life, without?
