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Web 3.0: Web 2.0 With Pants - Part II – — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:56:00 +0000

[...] is part two of a two part post on Web 3.0 by my friend Don. You can catch up by reading part one here. Today, Don takes us into the present day – exploring the current state of the Web and provides [...]

By: Don

Don — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:47:57 +0000

With respect to Green_Ears’ comment, I suggest bulletin boards be added to that list.

During Web 1.0, collaboration was indeed one-step removed from disseminated information. While there were web-based forums and web-based chat rooms during the dot-com era, information posted to someone’s personal web page had to be linked to.

This also brings up an important issue about Web 2.0. Where does the UseNet, E-mail and the like fit? Although there are online interfaces to these services, they do not necessarily require HTTP. O’Reilly lumped everything “not-Web 2.0″ together in one fell swoop.

By: Green_Ears

Green_Ears — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:10:51 +0000

Good overview so far!

However, in reference to Berniers-Lee’s comment about Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0: “This is more or less true and I would replace “Web” with “Internet”: “If Web 2.0 for a particular person is about blogs and wikis, then it is about people. This is precisely what the Web was initially designed for, a collaborative space where people can interact.”

I think back to newsgroups, email lists, MUD/MOO games, IRC chat rooms and instant messaging in terms of Internet collaboration in the old days.

The only real-time Web-based collaboration tool I remember is online discussion forums when I think of Web 1.0. From what I remember, Web 1.0 was initially focused disseminating information rather than engaging in a two-way sharing of information. The collaboration aspect happened via mediums outside of the Web 1.0.