Web 1.0 was hard work, web 2.0 is simply… better.
Web 1.0 was about reading, while web 2.0 is about writing. Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is now about communities. 1.0 was about HTML, 2.0 is about XML.
The list is endless:
Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
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
(Drumgoole 2008).
Axel Bruns (2008, 3) quotes Tim O’Reilly, stating that “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform”.
(O'Reilly 2008).
Web 2.0 has revolutionized how consumers use the internet. It’s about two way communication; now consumers can interact with people through blogs, websites and comments – a luxury that web 1.0 did not possess (O'Reilly 2008). Web 1.0 was only really about consuming; it was just a delivery medium. Yes we do consume web 2.0, but we actually use it too. We interact with people through blogs and emails, we create our own spaces – we can anything. This links with the idea of the produser, but more about that in another blog.
Bryan Alexander (2006) notes that social software has been a major component of the emergence of Web 2.0. He continues stating that "Web 2.0 services respond more deeply to users than Web 1.0 services" (Alexander 2006).
It’s important to realize that web 2.0 is the product of technological advancements and creative destruction (a term economist’s use for the evolution of the economy). Web 2.0 has opened the door to so many possibilities. Without web 2.0, our favourite online social networks would never have been invented and we would not be able to spend so many hours a day procrastinating on them. Look at YouTube; a perfect example of how web 2.0 has allowed users to interact with the web and each other. And it’s not the only one; you’ve got MySpace, Facebook, Flikr and del.icio.us to name a few. These mediums have allowed consumers the ability to download AND upload their own content, a key difference between 1.0 and 2.0.
I’m sure we are all grateful that there was a change to web 2.0 because lets face, I don’t really know if I could have gotten through anything without it, especially university! So finally, the questions that now remains is,
What will web 3.0 bring?
References
Alexander, B. 2006. Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? http://www.middlebury.edu/nr/rdonlyres/2c9efffc-00b4-46e9-9ce5-32d63a0fe9b5/0/unbound_02_02_web2.pdf (Accessed April 24, 2008).
Bruns, A. 2008. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond. In Production to Produsage, 1-7.
http://blackboard.qut.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_29175_1 (accessed April 24, 2008).
Drumgoole, J. 2008. Copacetic. http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10/ (accessed April 32, 2008).
O'Reilly, T. 2008. What is web 2.0? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html (accessed April 24, 2008).
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