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No, 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, a
by kibwen 4y ago
No, 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