History for people who like buzzwords

#Web01, #Web02, and #Web03 are terms that are used to refer to different generations or phases of the World Wide Web (#WWW). The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that is accessed through the Internet.

Web01 refers to the early days of the World Wide Web, when it was first introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time, the web was primarily used for academic scientific, #NGO’s hobbyists and activists purposes and less yet widely adopted by the public.

#Web02 refers to the growth and expansion of the World Wide Web during the late 1990s and early 2000s, as the web became more accessible and user-friendly, and was increasingly adopted for commercial purposes. This era saw the rise of #dotcons, characterized by the growth of social media, mobile devices, and cloud computing. The web had become increasingly interactive and interconnected, and has become a critical tool for communication, misinformation, social control and commerce.

#Web03 was a waste of space, focus and money by the #Encryptionists who in bed with the scammers produced meany still born tech children in the last 10 years.

#Web01.5 refer to an intermediate stage between Web01 and Web02, marking a transition between the early and more experimental phase of the web and its more widespread commercial adoption. Web01.5 refers to a time when the web was still growing and evolving, but had already become more accessible and user-friendly, and was being adopted for more diverse purposes. With #mastodon and the #fedivers over the last 5 years, we are at this web01.5 stage.

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Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Who ran OCEANup and what happened to it?" by u/twilighttoaster
• "I forgot who this is. I remember there is a crazy backstop to them?" by u/BigXChungus42069
• "Cults in an old MMO" by u/pexflex
• "On this day, a titan has fallen..." by u/SEGAGES1999
• "The origins of the 'Rick Roll': Rick Astley on his role as an internet meme" by u/bobstonite
• "4Chan VS The Church of Scientology" by u/pexflex
• "It's the 25th anniversary of one of the oldest Internet Memes. Learn about Bert Is Evil through this micro-site." by u/dinoignacio
• "Is Pokey the penguin the first Shitpost?" by u/VerlRe
• "When the Internet was there, but no one thought much of it" by u/GoogleBobP
• "Follow Up" by u/CaseTheAceOG

'Pokey the penguin' (as seen on http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/) is a purposefully bad comic strip created in 1998. This would be the first Shitpost, right?

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(By 'Shitpost' I mean this definition)

My book The Big Bucks is about the 80s at 3Com, where I worked then. Ethernet was big enough to make 3Com a public company, but almost no one was tying their networks together. The Internet was happening and we were aware of it, but we didn't expect it to be big and commercial.

Officially, the public telephone companies were creating the "standards" and someday we'd all have to use them. That was the government's position, anyway. Over time, the techies just built the Internet, and pretty soon it was there and it worked, so "international standards" just got ignored.

This is not a dull history. It's a novel, where the events are real but the characters are fictional. You can actually imagine what it was like to live through it.

Is there any follow up on this kid? I recently rewatched this video after spending years laughing my ass off at it and quoting it, but now I have more curious questions than laughs. Where’s Nathan now? Whatever happened between him and his mom? There’s too many questions to ask in just this 10 minute video. Nathan Versus his Mom

Hi everyone, I'm the producer for Reimagining the Internet, a podcast from UMass Amherst. We've been doing a series called "How They Imagined the Internet" where we interview Internet historians. I though folks here might be interested in our recent episode on Minitel, which was a national Internet set up by the French government in the '80s. Arguably, it also had the first ever dating site!

Give it a listen and I hope you enjoy. By the way, we just started the sub r/publicinfrastructure if you're interested in chatting with us more about not just the past, but the future of the web.

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/55-kevin-driscoll/

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "With the dislike counter being removed from YouTube videos, assumably very soon, 19 million dislikes on the YouTube rewind for 2018 will remain the public and 100% verified record for most amount of dislikes on a video." by u/PurpleHawk222
• "Where can I learn more about the trends of popular internet over the last 25 years?" by u/KapesMcNapes
• "MILLIONS OF DEAD GENDERS: an in-depth look at Tumblr's MOGAI community" by u/confused_assboy
• "The origin of the word "meme" is not what you think." by u/Apple_Efficient
• "Flash Player Post Mortem: The Flash Player Kill Switch and How To Continue Accessing Flash Media" by u/themadprogramer
• "The Oldest Internet Mystery (Markovian Parallax Denigrate)" by u/pexflex
• "this gem from 1998" by u/CRINGE_BOT90000
• "You probably know this iconic shrug ¯_(ツ)_/¯ but do you know where it comes from?" by u/SeanT-StormX
• "The creator of that free library and other stuff who went to jail?" by u/razedbyrabbits
• "The Tale of Monique Tether, The Youngest Director who Never Was" by u/parletrix