A brief history of the Web in version numbers
Friday, 1. September 2006, 15:20:01
...surely the Web2.0 gurus can't have forgotten all these milestones in the history of user interaction with the web:
Web1.0 HTTP, HTML, Mosaic
Web2.0 Early user-driven sites thanks to CGI apps
Web3.0 Javascript and DHTML, Part I
Web4.0 User-driven sites everywhere thanks to server-side scripting languages
Web5.0 Flash: movies not documents; "rich user experience", and a whole load of usability problems
Web6.0 Read/write web: blogging, wikis
Web7.0 Tagging: User annotations everywhere
Web8.0 AJAX (JS+DHTML Redux)
Web9.0 ...
(originally from a post to the CHI-WEB list, posted here for posterity)
Web1.0 HTTP, HTML, Mosaic
Web2.0 Early user-driven sites thanks to CGI apps
Web3.0 Javascript and DHTML, Part I
Web4.0 User-driven sites everywhere thanks to server-side scripting languages
Web5.0 Flash: movies not documents; "rich user experience", and a whole load of usability problems
Web6.0 Read/write web: blogging, wikis
Web7.0 Tagging: User annotations everywhere
Web8.0 AJAX (JS+DHTML Redux)
Web9.0 ...
(originally from a post to the CHI-WEB list, posted here for posterity)
