Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP will discourage small independent web publishers

Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s.One of the wonderful things about the rise of the web, twenty-something years ago, was the way in which it democratized publishing — suddenly, anyone with an idea could set up a website and make it available to anyone. Early on, publishing online required at least a rudimentary understanding of code. To be an online writer meant you also had to