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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 Waterluvian »

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?

There’s no concrete delineator. You kinda know it when you see it. Some common things for Web 1.0 though:

- usually no or minimal javascript

- minimal CSS, leaning on default styles

- feels like a passion project by one person or a small group

- design is usually minimal and completely lacking in any “techniques” used to manipulate you

- usually isn’t trying to sell you anything

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ohxh wrote: post #7
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 gma…

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Post by adra »

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?

1.0 was mostly static web pages with content changes largely driven by manual page updates to static web resources. This was the era where most sites were powered by an httpd host.

2.0 was when databases and ajax (JavaScript async) started to take over as a web content delivery form. Often content delivery moved from semantic page navigation flows to "single page applications" where the client state was often held client side and pushed to the server when asking for new content.

3.0 is the marketing term for crypto based projects that are trying to sell "a brand new web" where there are no longer centralized services providing content, and somewhere it all gets glued together with crypto forgetting that most of the modern web users are running on cell phones with limited cpu and more importantly battery constraints. It's also part of a proud group of technologies that garnered a catchy marketing term to describe the movement before the practical implementations emerged (much unlike web 1.0, 2.0 before it).

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Post by CharlesW »

xwowsersx wrote: post #13

Love this. Web 1.0 sites were eminently readable. Shame how bad sites have gotten. Here's one I landed: http://londonbusroutes.net/

The brutalist/undesigned style is an interesting vibe, but there are very simple things that could be done to radically improve information architecture and readability without sacrificing minimalism.
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