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The website you are currently using is a product of web 2.0 (Though maybe not "web2", the ahistorical term invented by crypto hucksters)
by LordDragonfang 4y ago
The website you are currently using is a product of web 2.0 (Though maybe not "web2", the ahistorical term invented by crypto hucksters)
- jimjimjim 4y agogood point, it used to be called 2.0 (the "point o") was very important. Businesses were adding 2.0 to non-computer things to try to make them seem new and high tech
- kibwen 4y agoNo, bog-standard forums were commonplace long before anyone heard of "web 2.0". And web 2.0 was just about the ability to use AJAX to create dynamic webpages, and HN is basically as static as it gets. I don't know where the perception that "web 2.0" means "social networking" is coming from, but it's ahistorical.
- LordDragonfang 4y ago> HN is basically as static as it gets. Functionally every single page request on HN is dynamically generated - I feel like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "static" means in this context. A static site is where the web server is serving html files as they appear on disk - as opposed to a dynamic site, where LAMP-like stack dynamically generates html responses based on query and session. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page
- bentcorner 4y agoIs it? This site feels very web 1.0. This could be just me but in my mind web 2.0 is solving the problem of form submission/link clicking redirecting users away from the current page. Thus web 1.0 are static sites where the only way to get new content is to manually refresh.