Tom Heath - A brief history of the Web in version numbers

A brief history of the Web in version numbers

Friday, 1. September 2006, 15:20:01

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...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)

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Comments

kmakice # 4. September 2006, 13:53

Technically, I think what you have as Web 1.0-5.0 would all be part of "version 1" (static to dynamic automated content). User-driven content is 2.0 and would begin with what you have as version 6.

That said, I agree that those innovations in technology are every bit as important as where the content is originating.

tomheath # 11. October 2006, 10:32

"That said, I agree that those innovations in technology are every bit as important as where the content is originating."

Agreed. That was my point exactly