Gregory's Server@tomw Tangentially related, but it bothered me when people started referring to the rise of Facebook, Twitter &c as "Web 2.0."
I'd always considered Web 1.0 to be the institutional Web of the 1990s, consisting largely of static government and corporate websites -- still uncomfortably close to the original "Information Superhighway" vision of Gore, Gingrich et al, and not fully capitalizing on the potential of hyperlinks.
Web 2.0 was the writeable Web that came into its own after the dotcom crash, with the proliferation of blogs and wikis.
And Web 3.0 was the rise of walled garden platforms like Facebook et al, beginning the reenclosure of the Web.
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@tomw I remember reading "Snow Crash," and Piercy's "He, She and It," and thinking "Thank God we didn't actually wind up with that kind of shitty Internet." |
@tomw Also weird how Zuck's metaverse consciously harkens back to that early walled garden Information Superhighway vision as Neal Stephenson portrayed it.