Tim Berners-Lee says Web 1.0 was about people

Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 on August 24, 2006

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LANINGHAM: "You know, with Web 2.0, a common explanation out there is Web 1.0 was about connecting computers and making information available; and Web 2 is about connecting people and facilitating new kinds of collaboration. Is that how you see Web 2.0?"

BERNERS-LEE: "Totally not. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along."

Exactly : What the web was supposed to be, yes. But it wasn't, so I don't see mr. Berners-Lee's point. Just look at it from a practical point of view. Around '93 I went online. That was exceptional. The internet was unknown by most, and having access to it made you rock. By that time, there was no interaction on the net. Companies, universities and governments were merely putting their brochures online and that's that. 2006. Everyone is online. Discussions are ongoing within governments whether access to the net should be available to all of us, including homeless people (!!). Wifi is everywhere and people talk constantly to eachother through IM software and expect you to be online. More and more small gadgets are invented that will keep you close to your email, IM and friends anywhere you go. Web 1.0 was all about the people ? Sorry, but you're wrong. Web 2.0 is all about the people. And Web 3.0 will probably be all about the hardware - computers as we know them will be banned to a museum and we will all be equipped with wearable gadgets that keep us online at all time.....