15 years ago @KevinMarks & I introduced #microformats @oreillymedia ETech 2004 real world semantics, before #RDFa #microdata etc.

Slides: tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html #HTMLFirst & inline #CSS+#JS <15k; faster than JS-only.

Prev: https://twitter.com/t/status/433494367601717248

Since then:
* drop the (X), just HTML
* meta tags still web alchemy, even more bloated DRY rot
* h-entry superceded hAtom/hentry/rel="bookmark" - microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
* recommendations: hReview still more reliable than anything from Google (https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/17/8/owning-my-reviews). Use h-review today microformats.org/wiki/h-review
* syndication: h-feed publishing/consuming growing rapidly. microformats.org/wiki/h-feed
* music playlists still unsolved for any cross-site/service use-cases


blogged 15 years ago:
* tantek.com/log/2004/02.html#d12t0012