Thus spake Tim
| Carol Thomas picked up on comments from Tim Berners-Lee on the meaningfulness or otherwise of the Web 2.0 name. Tim says: “Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.” This reminded me of a passage in John Naughton's book A Brief History of the Future in which he writes that: "Tim Berners-Lee was...very critical of the addition of the <IMG> tag. Andreesen recalls being 'bawled out' by him in the summer of 1993 for adding images to the thing. The frivolity that the visual Web offered worried its inventor because 'this was supposed to be a serious medium - this is serious information'." Like the old platitude: if you love it, let it go....... Technorati Tags: tim berners-lee, Web 2.0, Web 1.0, john naughton |
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Comments on "Thus spake Tim"
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Ewan McIntosh said ... (September 03, 2006 4:58 PM) :
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Ewan McIntosh said ... (September 03, 2006 4:58 PM) :
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John Connell said ... (September 03, 2006 5:52 PM) :
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Carol Thomas said ... (September 08, 2006 4:07 AM) :
post a commentThe new jargon (though it's far less jargony) is the Live Web. I'd drop the initial caps but I think it sums it up. The web is a live thing, with information pumping around the veins of the net, birth (two blogs a second) and child mortality (the third of new blogs which don't make it beyond three months) and longevity. We have white cells which are those who police the web (calling up obscene photos on Flickr) and antibiotics (the Local Authority who are sent in to kill off the obscenities because nature is too slow).
I could on, but I won't ;-)
And John, can you put the comments in a non-pop-up, so that we can cocomment them? Cheers!
I think you just caught yourself in time there, Ewan :-)
The pop-ups have been duly given the boot!
Hmmm... I agree that the web is alive. But a metaphoric person conjures up images of HAL to me. Dunno... or perhaps we should just go back to our roots and call it the World Wide Web... all together now...