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+== Context: Re-tinker-ifying The Web ==
+Hackasaurus is Mozilla's expression of our [http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html manifesto] and [http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html mission]; it provides a toolkit and learning experiences that represent our vision of a transparent and remixable Open Web that enables anyone to deconstruct it and make it their own.
+The need for a designed toolkit and learning experiences has arisen over the past decade as the Web has simultaneously become more complex and less transparent. In the 1990s and early 2000s, many kids knew the basics of HTML and had the ability to use a browser's View Source feature to figure out how pages were put together. In the age of Facebook, however, people increasingly have less practical opportunities to learn about and use the building blocks of the Web, and using View Source on most pages results in a complex mess of minified code.
+Aside from diminishing one's perception of their own ability to shape the Web, this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majID9DkSew&list=PLA14C60FA101D1F4C de-tinker-ification] also results in a reduced understanding of how technology affects one's freedom, security, and privacy. Thus the goal of Hackasaurus is to empower individuals to not only tinker with the virtual world around them, but also to make truly informed technical decisions.
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