Comments on: Web 2 point Oh (no) http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/05/30/web-2-point-oh-no/ News and views from the UK's best hosting provider Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Brainstorm http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/05/30/web-2-point-oh-no/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Robert Brainstorm Tue, 30 May 2006 15:34:28 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=121#comment-49 If we are now using web 2.Oooh then what can we clasify 'versions' of the web from the past. When web pages were simply text with bigger text as headings was this 'half web' (0.5)? or how about the late 90's when every web designer under our Sun decided that tiling a garish image across the background of their pages and behind text, leaving a completely unreadable mess was good design, and nearly half the websites I ever visited had 'that' animated gif image saying 'Under Constuction' was that Web 0.9 or Web 'Not quite there yet'? Surely Web 2.0 isn't necessarily refering to a new version of the web rather a new way of using the Internet (remember <a href='http://www.ukfastblog.co.uk/28/03/2006/internet_training_for_new_recruits' rel="nofollow">this</a>), where we are gaining access to new tools and software that is beginning to take advantage of our ever increasing download speeds. Broadband has brought us the ability to throw around large amounts of data all over the world allowing us to use video chat, P2P Networks even take control of <a href='http://demo.echelon.com/layout.htm' rel="nofollow">your house</a> by telling the oven to start cooking and ordering the tv to record Neighbours and have it ready to go with dinner all from your office desk. Technology is full of incremental values to show that things are getting better; doesn't 1G, 2G, 2.5G and 3G sound better than; A mobile phone, A mobile phone that calls and sends text messages, A mobile phone that calls, sends text messages and allows some useless function that shows a 'text web', A mobile phone that calls, video calls, sends messages of all kinds and allows you to view the web properly? If we are now using web 2.Oooh then what can we clasify ‘versions’ of the web from the past. When web pages were simply text with bigger text as headings was this ‘half web’ (0.5)? or how about the late 90′s when every web designer under our Sun decided that tiling a garish image across the background of their pages and behind text, leaving a completely unreadable mess was good design, and nearly half the websites I ever visited had ‘that’ animated gif image saying ‘Under Constuction’ was that Web 0.9 or Web ‘Not quite there yet’?

Surely Web 2.0 isn’t necessarily refering to a new version of the web rather a new way of using the Internet (remember this), where we are gaining access to new tools and software that is beginning to take advantage of our ever increasing download speeds. Broadband has brought us the ability to throw around large amounts of data all over the world allowing us to use video chat, P2P Networks even take control of your house by telling the oven to start cooking and ordering the tv to record Neighbours and have it ready to go with dinner all from your office desk.

Technology is full of incremental values to show that things are getting better; doesn’t 1G, 2G, 2.5G and 3G sound better than; A mobile phone, A mobile phone that calls and sends text messages, A mobile phone that calls, sends text messages and allows some useless function that shows a ‘text web’, A mobile phone that calls, video calls, sends messages of all kinds and allows you to view the web properly?

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