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During the 1960s, Salton developed a system that was to become a model for information retrieval. It was called SMART,
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
-This is part of what makes early internet innovation so rapid- it was built on open protocols that devs knew wouldnt change
Chris Dixon • The Potential of Blockchain Technology
In her essay,
A Vernacular Web
(2005), Olia Lialina describes the web of the mid-1990s as:
A Vernacular Web
(2005), Olia Lialina describes the web of the mid-1990s as:
bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction. It was a web of sudden connections and personal links. Pages were built on the edge of tomorrow, full of hope for a faster connection and a more powerful computer... it was a web of amateurs soon to be washe... See more
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So among other things, Web 2.0 represents the shift to an internet that was conversational & interactive.
Chris Rempel • PART 1: THE INTERNET IS HAVING A KODAK MOMENT
So to answer your question: it’s early. We are barely a decade into the modern era. The most popular applications are early and, I would argue, fundamentally flawed. Take Twitter, which is probably the most visible example of both the good and bad of the modern internet. On the good side: I can look down on my phone and see the most interesting tho... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
They discovered, after Google and Amazon, a third way of organizing the web. Google organized it by pages, Amazon by products, and Facebook by people.