• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Is “web2” a thing? I’ve only ever heard it used by web3 shills, and never outside of Twitter or LinkedIn.

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      10 months ago

      I remember the term being thrown around a lot in the early days of Youtube. The optimism of the internet being mostly based on dynamic content created by real humans all over the world, with a lower barrier to entry than before.

      The internet was a much different place before social media platforms basically took over.

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        10 months ago

        Wasn’t that slightly different, in that people were referring to Web 2.0 as the rise in dynamic content, and interactive web pages/applications?

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        10 months ago

        Does it? I remember Web 2.0 being a thing many years ago, but the only time I see web2 mentioned is either around social media or to describe “the old web” - both only used to shill web3 as “the future”.

        • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          I was around for the dawn of Web2.0 as a web developer. It was used for a group of tech and design such as Ajax and rounded corners. You could say it was the next step after flat HTML pages that included more dynamic front ends with JS, CSS3 and HTML5.