Google introduced AMP in 2015 as a solution for slow and unresponsive mobile websites. It didn't go well.

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Sources:
• https://www.uky.edu/~jclark/mas355/WAP.PDF
• https://developers.secure.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/09/22/instant-articles-from-CMS/
• https://buffer.com/library/facebook-instant-articles/
• https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-accelerated-mobile-pages/
• https://searchengineland.com/what-happened-when-we-turned-off-amp-378591
• https://www.axios.com/2022/10/14/meta-facebook-ending-support-instant-articles
• https://searchengineland.com/amp-top-stories-now-live-243314
• https://searchengineland.com/google-opens-amp-firehose-259569
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ha00dSGKmjoEh2mRiG8FIA5sJ1KihTuZe-AXX1r8P-8/edit?usp=sharing
• https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/
• https://searchengineland.com/what-happened-when-we-turned-off-amp-378591
• https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:37 The early mobile web
0:08:55 Facebook Instant Articles
0:12:09 Google AMP
0:24:13 Everyone hates AMP
0:38:07 The post-AMP web
0:47:26 Outro