Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

October 18, 2006 at 9:54 am · Filed under Geek News, Opinions

Zeldman, author of the vastly popular Designing With Web Standards, offers an amusing comparison of Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 trends here are my favorites:
Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities.
Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace.

Web 1.0: Writing.
Web 2.0: Rating.

Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day.
Web 2.0: Technorati.com.

He invited his readers to submit their own as well:

Web 1.0: Animated gif
Web 2.0: Badges

Web 1.0: Bloated Table Code
Web 2.0: Divitis

Web 1.0: “Under Construction”
Web 2.0: “Beta”

Web 1.0: Content is king!
Web 2.0: Contributed content is king!

Web 1.0: drop shadows
Web 2.0: reflections

Web 1.0: “Site best viewed with Internet Explorer”
Web 2.0: “Site best viewed with anything but Internet Explorer”

Web 1.0: “Looking for an experienced designer. Must be able to design and implement websites using HTML, CSS. Knowledge of Javascript a bonus.”
Web 2.0: Looking for an experienced designer. The candidate must be affluent in XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, AJAXY GOODNESS, Ruby on Rails, PHP, JSP, SQL, MySql, ASP.net, XML, Actionscript (2.0 and 3.0), Adobe CS2 products, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Quark, eCommerce, SEO, linux, unix, IIS.

And I reworded a couple:

Web 1.0: Surfing
Web 2.0: Consuming

Web 1.0: Webmonkey
Web 2.0: A List Apart

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