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by esics6A
1653 days ago
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Like every tool and technology it's how you use it that counts. My memories of Web 1.0 were not so fond. It was a rogue's gallery of low quality websites that lacked any sense of security and much harder to tell if something was official and legitimate. People who never used the web before were easily scammed. That's why most people stayed within the AOL walled garden. Remember most of my friends used the open web to download warez (games/apps) which was usually loaded with viruses and we were on Windows and not on MacOS/Linux yet so it was easy to get pwned. The progression to Web 2.0 brought about social media but it also brought about web apps. We could now build really useful websites that actually helped users do things they could never do before. Even look at GitHub something we take for granted but is made possible by Web 2.0. The tech industry has built an incredible amount of utility and value using Web 2.0 that does not include social media or invasive tracking. Social Media like Facebook is regressive because it uses Web 2.0 technology but using the walled garden paradigm that AOL used in the past. So it effectively is a misuse of the technology originally designed for the open web. Jack Dorsey mentioned that the future of social media is federated and decentralized using blockchain so efforts like Blue Sky will make Facebook and the centralized walled garden obsolete. |
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