Slides from my opening talk at Polymer training @ PSU 2017. This talk starts with a brief history of the web from the perspective of everyone trying to figure out how to make it a platform. We end our history on web components, polymer, and what a silly web component looks like, how we use it and then lead off into the day's training. This is partly serious, partly silly as the history starts with Space Jam, Homestarrunner and Zombocom shoutouts and ends with the newly launched youtube.com and some of the futurist work we're doing with HAX for a headless authoring experience as realized via web components.