Are you ready for 1.0? Me neither. Here’s what I missed while I was in the storm drain. Where were you? Inkling, maybe?
WEB 1.0 (1991–2003)
This 1st generation was “read-only” (Berners-Lee, founder of WWW), 1-way flow of information for passive viewing. Websites were business-oriented, static pages intended as information sources (see Wikipedia on Web 1.0). They provided content to read, such as Encyclopedia Britannica Online, or products to purchase using Shopping Carts, such as Amazon.
Most institutional sites, such as your college, university, or business, and personal sites followed this mold where the user opened the site to obtain information and typically signed in with a user name and password. That was usually the only activity requested of the user. (NOTE: Amazon did provide readers the chance to write and post reviews on the site. Many other catalogue-type sites did not.)
A major shift in Web design and use occurred with Web 2.0. That deserves its own blog. Stay tuned.
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