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Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by CalRobert »

matricaria wrote: post #2

What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?

Not sure, but table-based layouts, no css, and being made with no concern for monetization are hallmarks of a 1.0 site.

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Post by susam »

There was Web 1.0. Then there was Web 2.0. Now we find ourselves in the era of Web Pi (3.14159). This humorous term comes from one of my favourite comments that I once found on HN. Quoting the comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139081> below:

> Nice read. Firm supporter of Web Pi (3.1415). When it comes to building for the web today, I'm always amazed that "so much can be done with so little" and yet the default is the opposite - "so much is needed to deliver so little" - so irrational! Where did we go wrong? I wonder what Web Euler (2.71828) would have looked like?

In that same thread, I made a comment that my favourite phase of the web was Web Golden (1.61803). That was my attempt at extending their humour. Web Golden refers to the very short-lived sweet spot between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. If you're looking for a moderate dose of nostalgia, I have elaborated that golden phase a little more in my blog post here: https://susam.net/maze/web-golden.html>.

By the way, the Wiby link on this HN story took me to this website: https://www.evanmiller.org/>. Really neat website with an interesting collection of articles.

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Post by marginalia_nu »

matricaria wrote: post #2

What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?

Web 1.0 is any website with the doctag ; it's frames based designs, table based layouts, blink tags and under construction gifs.

Web 2.0 is the transition from homepages and webmasters to content and platforms, users are producing the content and platform owners get rich off ads. It also coincides with the shift to AJAX and web applications that had logic in the front-end, but this isn't really part of the actual definition.

Web 3.0 was briefly the semantic web. It didn't really take off and was largely forgotten when the cryptobros relaunched the term. New Web 3 is all about using decentralization, blockchains and cryptocurrencies and NFTs to somehow solve the problems with Web 2.0.

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Post by ohxh »

matricaria wrote: post #2

What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?

As far as I understand, web 1.0 is browser makes a request -> backend delivers some html, with subsequent requests just for css/images/iframes. This also had a characteristic style with layouts made from tables and simple but busy designs. Web 2.0 is many of the web apps you see today, where you don’t need to load a page to fetch new content, but instead asynchronous JavaScript grabs it and edits the html — think gmail or Google maps. Web 3.0 is unclear to me, but it seems like most people who use it refer to decentralized or peer to peer applications and crypto.

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Post by pavlov »

matricaria wrote: post #2

What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?

Today it’s primarily a load of nonsense that cryptocurrency promoters use to make people want to buy tokens related to some useless website which has no users except the other token holders.

Back in 2005, “web 2.0” was a marketing term meant to indicate optimism that dynamic web applications could transcend the economic disappointments of the dot-com boom and bust. It was always nebulous and poorly defined, and the only reason we’re talking about “web 2.0” almost two decades later is the aforementioned crypto promoters.

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