Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
Joe (one of our clients) has written a little comparative analysis of Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0:
- Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
- Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
- Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
- Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
- Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
He has about 15 such points. Here are a couple more, off the top of my head:
- Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation
- Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth
- Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services
Cross-posted from Capulet’s blog.
May 29th, 2006 at 7:50 am
Here are some more. Some are more true than others:
Web 1.0 was top-down. Web 2.0 is bottom-up.
Web 1.0 was edited and produced. Web 2.0 is raw.
Web 1.0 was banner ads. Web 2.0 is Adsense.
Web 1.0 was text. Web 2.0 is video.
Web 1.0 was professional. Web 2.0 is amature.
May 29th, 2006 at 8:17 am
Web 1.0 was dial up. Web 2.0 is broadband.
Web 1.0 was IE. Web 2.0 is FireFox.
Web 1.0 was information. Web 2.0 is opinion.
Wait a minute, enough fun and games. Let’s get real and take off the rosy-colored glasses.
Web 1.0 was information. Web 2.0 is propaganda.
Web 1.0 was Microsoft. Web 2.0 is Google. Web 3.0 is ATT and NSA, working to protect us.
Web 1.0 was American. Web 2.0 is international. Web 3.0 is Chinese.
Web 1.0 was a tool. Web 2.0 is a lifestyle. Web 3.0 is an addiction.
Web 1.0 was a tool for the few. Web 2.0 is entertainment for the many. Web 3.0 is an opiate for the many.
Web 1.0 was the newspaper. Web 2.0 is the TV. Web 3.0 is the Matrix.
May 29th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Web 1.0 was content. Web 2.0 is promotional material.
Web 2.0 is Web 1.0 with shiny new packaging.
Web 1.0 inspired some interesting writing and ideas. Web 2.0 inspires some pretty interesting diatribes and criticism.
May 29th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Neal:
Web 1.0 was about a professional who cared about details like spelling; Web 2.0 is about an amature [sic] who can’t spell.
May 29th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
JohnB: Gosh, that was bitchy.
May 29th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Darren
Some days are diamonds; some days are stones.
I was originally going to suggest: Web 1.0 was didactic; Web 2.0 is diarrhea.
I softened it to Web 1.0 was discovery; Web 2.0 is drivel. But that was too flacid.
I settled on Web 1.0 was fact; Web 2.0 is facile. But that really didn’t make my point. Neal’s comment, which would never have made Web 1.0, was sufficiently facile that it stood as a stirling example of what wasn’t before but is now.
And, yes: my comments are all Web 2.0 (but at least I recognize that).
May 29th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Web 1.0 was never called Web 1.0 until someone decided to slap a nice buzzy wrapper around a bunch of existing technologies in an effort to give the illusion that the dot com bust was a result of technology failure and not business failure, leading the next wave of technologists to run around patting themselves on the back convincing one another that “Web 2.0″ is their creation and that it’s revolutionary.
May 29th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
JohnB, thank you for pointing out my error. Your own post is an inspiration, a “stirling” [sic] example of generous and gracious discourse.
May 30th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Web 1.0 was about “buying the democrat”.
Web 2.0 is about “owning the democrat”
May 30th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Web 1.0 was a bubble
Web 2.0 is a Bubbl(TM) (beta)
May 30th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Neal
Well at least one person (you) got it.
May 30th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
i woz nev3r to g0Od @ spelin.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:56 am
web1.0 is charles and diana
web2.0 is abishek and aishwarya
May 21st, 2007 at 3:53 am
gr8, no doubt.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:54 am
web 1.0 was arun.
web 2.0 is saket.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:04 am
web 1.0 was aloneless
web 2.0 is common
web 3.0 will be aloneless+common
just think how…
June 15th, 2007 at 2:53 am
These all info are beeing very usefull for everyOne.
and my line is
Web 1.0 was ‘OLD’
WEB 2.0 is ‘NEW’
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:14 am
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July 23rd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
web 1.0 is when monkeys using tools
web 2.0 is when monkeys shows u the finger.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Web 1.0 was me pondering a response, Web 2.0 is me actually writing one.
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:51 am
[…] Web 1.0 to my way of […]
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:13 am
[…] has taken many years but companies now routinely use the Internet and “web 1” as an internal and external communications medium (email, web sites, on-line purchasing etc) – […]
December 20th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
how bout Web2.0 vs Web 3.0
January 9th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Web 1.0 was a bubble
Web 2.0 is a Bubbl(TM) (beta)
Hahaha this is so true!
What I would like to add is:
Web 2.0 is social networking
Web 1.0 was social exploration
Why I’m saying this?
I have the impression that earlier, when there were no real networks but places like forums and communities, everyone was open to meet new people and also learn more from each other, build real relationships across the world.
Whereas now, it’s just a lot of closed networks like Facebook or MySpace where I can have 2000 friends but I actually know well only 50 of them…
And rarely do we start getting to know each other like in the old days, in a “pen pals”-like manner.
What do you think?
January 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
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January 25th, 2008 at 7:35 am
[…] aún así son muy pocos. En pocas palabras seguimos enganchados en velocidad mínima, seguimo en 1.0 cuando todo el mundo esta en 2.0 y casi por enganchar la […]
February 14th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
[…] from other sites integrated, you’re taking a step back and forcing them to make very strictly Web 1.0 material. Actually, by creating sites that are completely self-contained– by putting them on […]
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:21 am
[…] does not point out, however, that these sites are examples of the Web 1.0 realm and Web 2.0 is already here… and many are now talking about the next step, Web 3.0. […]
March 6th, 2008 at 10:07 am
see this thanks
March 16th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
This post and its comments are so nice!
I’ll show it to my students, thanks!
March 19th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
great work man thx
April 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
[…] with the website, and you merely sat there and read. One quote I read that sums this up is from Darren Barefoot, and he said, “Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation”. You really […]
April 26th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
web 1.0 was dominated by poor browsers (internet exploder cough cough!) web 2.0 is like getting kicked in the groin a thousand times by rubbish sites like myspace and bebo which are incredibly poor and deserve to be set on fire by a random guy who is like wtf and im like wtf and you are all like wtf then theres a balloon pop which scares an old lady who falls into a can of whoop ass then plays gta 4 and invents a social networking website called my (waste of) space
May 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
i honor the debates happening here :)
May 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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May 29th, 2008 at 12:39 am
web 1.0 was exploration; web 2.0 is exclamation
web 1.0 was a new neighborhood; web 2.0 is the know it all neighbor keeping up with the joneses.
web 1.0 was substance; web 2.0 is fashion. Substance will always remain valued, but fashion is so ugly it must be changed every half hour.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 am
web 2.0 is about what we are doing right now, right here! with 1.0 my opinion did not matter, no1s’ did. U say its propaganda..how can that be if every1 can challenge and speak out?
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 am
1- Web 1.0 is a static web.
Web 2.0 is a social web.
2. Web 1.0 is page based
Web 2.0 is record based.
3. Web 1.0 is edited by owner of the website.
Web 2.0 can be edited by any person.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Web 1.0 was Monkeys, Web 2.0 was Man, Web 3.0 Strong AI.
The web is and evolving source, forever changing and growing.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:01 am
“Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and I think you’ve just invented Web 3.0.”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
July 17th, 2008 at 6:03 am
How long do we have to wait before this web 2.0 bubbl pops?
July 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
“web 1.0 was exploration; web 2.0 is reclamation” is what i think you meant to say.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:26 am
web 1.0 is salma hayek.
web 2.0 is rihana.
so it’s a simple web 2.0 is a new strategy where u can creat your own links and images…..
August 31st, 2008 at 9:59 am
Web 2.0 is still in “beta” :-)
September 10th, 2008 at 7:54 am
[…] 1.0. Web 1.0was the beginning of the Internet. When it was being developed at this time, you could mainly just […]
September 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Web 1.0 = user
Web 2.0 = me
Web 3.0 = they knowing everything about me
September 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
[…] Web 1.0 started in 1994 and ended around 2004. We couldnt do very much then. […]