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Yeah, I'd say "old web" is early '90s up through about mid-2000s or so. Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, lots of standalone web forums, the early blogosphere, no
by Gormo 2mo ago
Yeah, I'd say "old web" is early '90s up through about mid-2000s or so. Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, lots of standalone web forums, the early blogosphere, no social media, etc.
- clickety_clack 2mo agoPre-social media is probably the watermark. That’s what sucked all the content out of the web and into walled-garden platforms.
- ColdStream 2mo agoAs they say, now it is five social media platforms posting copies of each others content.
- rustcleaner 2mo agoIt's time for trust busters to mandate the gardens have open standards based authentication-less protocols for scraping and viewing the content behind their walls. If that bankrupts them then so what? That's what they get for being web-destroying walled gardens!
- Gormo 2mo agoBack in the early 2000s, we were encouraging all of our friends and family still using AOL to come over to the open web. Little did we know that they'd provide the impetus for the open web to gradually turn into a new version of AOL.
- MarkusQ 2mo agohttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/old-2 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/old-2
- s0rce 2mo agoI think there are a few eras. Pre-graphics, then pre-Google search, then pre-social media/public facebook.
- ColdStream 2mo agoThere was the sub era of Flash based nonsense. Somewhere in the 2002-2005 period.
- ErigmolCt 2mo agoYeah, 2009-2014 feels more like the old social web to me