Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

written by Martin Häcker on

  • Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
    • Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
    • Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
    • Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
    • Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
    • Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
    • Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
    • Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
    • Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
    • Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales
    • Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
    • Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
    • Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs
    • Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
    • Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

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