Week 1 Post 2- Web Ages
Web Ages timeline
https://flatworldbusiness.wordpress.com/flat-education/previously/web-1-0-vs-web-2-0-vs-web-3-0-a-bird-eye-on-the-definition/
I like this timeline a lot for helping me understand what we are talking about in this class, but what’s really eye opening is that 2.0 is sort of considered to have occurred around 1999. When I think of mass internet usage becoming mainstream, I often think of it around the time it got to my house, which was 1996. You know something hits a sort of mass market appeal when a hollywood movie starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks can be based upon it and be successful (1998’s You’ve Got Mail). This is not some film about hackers (95’s Hackers) or cryptologists (1992’s Sneakers), who used computers but we as the audience largely understood them as not being everyday people. At the time, if you used a computer, it was probably as a glorified typewriter. (Ha, just thought of Mathew Broderick in 83’s WarGames. That’s still mindblowing to me, what his character was able to achieve with that tech)
So anyway, it seems that 2.0 was simultaneous with that mainstreaming of computer interaction. 2.0 was what enabled computing and web surfing for those without specialized computer skills.
I’m having trouble making the leap from 2.0 to 3.0 and beyond. The difference between 1.0 and 2.0 seems logical, but even with this helpful graph at the bottom, I don’t really understand how the attributes of 3.0 aren’t just refinements of 2.0 thinking. An improvement of efficiency and accuracy. Where is the big leap that would warrant a new developer number?
I mean, i say all this knowing this is just terminology, and not really applicable to what’s actually going on. But that gets back to a feeling I have that some of this can just be marketing terms, and a whole push to something like 3.0 could be co-opted into meaningless until there is an actual change in computing that requires it, that describes and defines a paradigm shift.
https://flatworldbusiness.wordpress.com/flat-education/previously/web-1-0-vs-web-2-0-vs-web-3-0-a-bird-eye-on-the-definition/
I like this timeline a lot for helping me understand what we are talking about in this class, but what’s really eye opening is that 2.0 is sort of considered to have occurred around 1999. When I think of mass internet usage becoming mainstream, I often think of it around the time it got to my house, which was 1996. You know something hits a sort of mass market appeal when a hollywood movie starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks can be based upon it and be successful (1998’s You’ve Got Mail). This is not some film about hackers (95’s Hackers) or cryptologists (1992’s Sneakers), who used computers but we as the audience largely understood them as not being everyday people. At the time, if you used a computer, it was probably as a glorified typewriter. (Ha, just thought of Mathew Broderick in 83’s WarGames. That’s still mindblowing to me, what his character was able to achieve with that tech)
So anyway, it seems that 2.0 was simultaneous with that mainstreaming of computer interaction. 2.0 was what enabled computing and web surfing for those without specialized computer skills.
I’m having trouble making the leap from 2.0 to 3.0 and beyond. The difference between 1.0 and 2.0 seems logical, but even with this helpful graph at the bottom, I don’t really understand how the attributes of 3.0 aren’t just refinements of 2.0 thinking. An improvement of efficiency and accuracy. Where is the big leap that would warrant a new developer number?
I mean, i say all this knowing this is just terminology, and not really applicable to what’s actually going on. But that gets back to a feeling I have that some of this can just be marketing terms, and a whole push to something like 3.0 could be co-opted into meaningless until there is an actual change in computing that requires it, that describes and defines a paradigm shift.
Charles,
ReplyDeleteIt think you observation about web 2.0 initially took place about the time that computer began mainstream is a great observation. I think web 2.0 was a response to what the everyday public wanted to use computers for. It wasn't to just type memos. It was enhance their lives.
As for web 3.0 being just a variation or refinement of 2.0, I think you are correct and this why we are taking a class called web 2.0 and not web 3.0. It is the same thing, for the most part.