Web 2.0 Minus Minus
Y’all know what Web 2.0 is. The social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, content sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube. Blogs are early two-point-ohh, chatty places like Twitter and FriendFeed are late. Maybe they’re about 2.0.8.
And Web 1.0 must be all those shopping sites from the late 90s. Most of them are gone now, killed by the popping dot-com bubble. But there’s plenty of 1.0 still around: Amazon thrives, eBay’s doing OK for now, Yahoo is hanging on. Remember eToys, pets.com, and boo.com?
And what about Web zero-point-ohh, what is that anyway? Early search engines like Aliweb, Infoseek, Lycos, and AltaVista? IRC? Bulletin boards? Walled gardens like CompuServe and AOL?
Which brings us to Web -1.0 (negative one), which is Usenet newsgroups and 30-baud modems.
And of course Web i.0 (the square root of negative one) which never actually happened. This is for stuff like PointCast (push) and TV over the internet so you can buy things with your remote.
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