#web-2-0 — Public Fediverse posts

"With every leap in technological advancement, we witness a fierce urge to undo it. Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again"

Thomas Dekeyser guest blogging in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine 👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brief-history-of-techno-negativity

Wonder whether that techno-negativity was as fierce in the good old #Web20 / #Enterprise20 days than nowadays with #GenAI. Did we miss it? 🤔

#SovereignByDesign #Luddism #Luddites #SocBiz

M3 MacBook Air and a freaking single web page is eating 80% of CPU due to all the ad embeds and crap.

And that’s WITH AdBlock Plus active. I fear turning it off.

The ”modern” web was a bad ideas.

#web20 #advertising #webcrap

[Перевод] Document PiP vs window.open

Всем привет! Меня зовут Максим Иванов . Сегодня я хотел бы провести небольшой исторический экскурс и объяснить, почему Document Picture-in-Picture — это не просто способ отображать видео в формате « картинка в картинке », а новое и любопытное API, которое потенциально может заменить привычный всем window.open. Возможность выводить видео в режиме PiP появилась еще в сентябре 2018 года в Chrome 69. С тех пор прошло более семи лет активного тестирования и развития. В 2019 году подобный механизм появился в Safari, а к 2020-му — и в Firefox. Теперь, когда почти каждый браузер умеет открывать видео в отдельном плавающем окне, возникает логичный вопрос: могут ли браузеры с той же легкостью открывать в отдельном окне интерактивный HTML-контент, а не только видео? И если да, то каким образом? Давайте поговорим об этом ниже.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/953340/

#pip #document #js #iframe #DocumentPictureInPicture #web #web10 #web20 #open

Remembering Jess Search and the early noughties web

https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/remembering-jess-search-and-post-crash-pre-web2-scene/

Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards

On Open Web Conversations on OpenChannels.fm

https://openchannels.fm/exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/

In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.

Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards

@davew and @nathanwrigley talking about "Decentralisation, WordPress and Open Publishing"

https://wptavern.com/podcast/186-dave-winer-on-decentralisation-wordpress-and-open-publishing

also don't forget to listen to the openchannels podcast with @davew and me!

https://openchannels.fm/exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/

#fediverse #activitypub #wordpress #textcasting #rss #openweb #indieweb #blogs #web20 #podcast

Wrote a quick blog post about Typepad shutting down at the end of the month, which turned into a bit of a eulogy for the good bits of Web 2.0...
https://danthornton.net/2025/09/and-now-typepad-is-shutting-down/

#Typepad #Blogging #Web20

Among the hidden challenges of modern software engineering is the part where your brain just deadlocks because your company is up to its ass in so many third-party integrations with so many doofy names that you literally can't remember the one you want to use.

"I need to look at that graph I made the other day. Is that in JIRA? No, that's tickets. Oh, it's a graph, so Grafana! No, that's logs and charts. Let's see, synonym for 'graph...' Chart... diagram... you can embed them in a document and they become a figure~oh, it's Figma!"

(side note: this would not be a problem if we could get to the next phase of the design of the web where all these little resources aren't silo'd into their own services so that you have to start from the app to find the doc instead of starting from, say, the project. Or a directory of docs across heterogeneous apps. We had this solved in the nineties and took a big step back from UX when everything went Cloud.)

ETA: I was wrong it was LucidChart. 😉

#cloud #web20

You no longer need JavaScript

My goal with this article is to share my perspectives on the web, as well as introduce many aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with. I’m not trying to make you give up JavaScript, I’m just trying to show you everything that’s possible, leaving it up to you to pick what works best for whatever you’re working on.

I think there’s a lot most web developers don’t k

https://www.osnews.com/story/143246/you-no-longer-need-javascript/

#Web20

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. The TypePad shutdown is rough news for the site's remaining user base—and it's yet another tranche of old Internet content that will only be available via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, when it's available at all.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/one-time-wordpress-competitor-typepad-ends-its-slide-into-obscurity-by-shutting-down/

#blogging #graveyard #oldInternet #shutdown #typepad #web20

Es brauche das #Instrumentarium der #Sozialwissenschaft​en, um die #enorm​e #Flut #digital​er #Information​en #kritisch zu #reflektieren und ihr #Sinn zu geben. Ein #Beispiel für die #Wiederentdeckung eines #Theorem​s aus #vordigital​er #Zeit sei der #Vorschlag, #Ordnungsbildung im #Web20 mithilfe der #Theorie #soziale​r #Welt​en von Anselm S. #Strauss zu #untersuchen.

#Sutter / #Maasen - Die #Neuerfindung der #Soziologie S.77 f.

#Sozialwelten #Ordnungssuche #Ordnung #Ordnungsfindung

Around 2008 (+/- 3y) was the time, when that Internet (TM) #web20 has died. We believed in the freedom of speech and stuff.

After that, the (a) social #web30 brought us to algorithmic controlled mindset of people based on the most populist content.

It's legit. Populist stuff creates the most emotions thus clicks thus money.

So, do not blame single players. Blame walled gardens with capitalist interest.

#LLM tech is about to kill anything where people are able to contribute:

The Future of #Comments is Lies, I Guess
https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess

"I strongly suspect the only reason #Mastodon hasn’t been eaten alive by LLM #spambots is because we’re just not big enough to be lucrative. But those economics are shifting, and even obscure ecological niches can be worth filling."

Back to Web 1.0? 🤨😞

#spam #moderation #web20

#Development #Trends
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 · Why the Model Context Protocol deserves attention https://ilo.im/1640uj

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#Business #Community #OpenWeb #Web #Web20 #AI #MCP #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

🌐 SOCIAL MEDIA
🔴 Digg Reboots with AI & Reddit’s Co-Founder

🪧 Kevin Rose & Alexis Ohanian have bought back Digg, aiming to restore its community-driven roots.

🪧 AI-powered moderation & engagement will enhance discussions without replacing human interaction.

🪧 A March 8 launch is rumored, with Justin Mezzell as CEO & Rose as board chair.

#Digg #AI #SocialMedia #Web20 #Reddit

Digg Again

Kevin Rose (ex Digg) and Alexis Ohanian (ex Reddit) have teamed up and acquired Digg!

I think there is a good chance for Digg to become popular again.

Digg aims to build the kind of community-first social platform that basically no longer exists on the internet. And its new founding team thinks AI could be the secret to pulling it off.

I’m not convinced it’s going to be because of AI tools.

It’s likely to be because Reddit upsets its users and they switch back to Digg.

Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s, The Verge

#AI #SocialMedia #Web #web20

Hey you security people! Your firewall is creating all these CORS errors in my browser console and making these SaaS sites behave poorly! Fix that crap!

Really? Reallllly???

#cors #web20isGoingWell #web20

busybee: Notes: Why you’ll leave X (as well as Instagram and all the other private platforms) https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/15268-Why-youll-leave-X-as-well-as-Instagram-and-all-the-other-private-platforms #Enshittification #IndieWeb #Notes #Web20 #Blog

Da hat sich jemand sehr viel Mühe gemacht und mir vor drei Wochen von der anderen Seite der Erde eine Ansichtskarte auf die Reise geschickt! Kam heute an.

#web20 #barcamp

Given the latest developments in the #Web20 and #enshittification, I wonder why no one ever did a #Web20IsGoingJustGreat project a la Molly White’s.

Maybe because it would be mostly a tribute to three or four scumbag billionaires?

This is it, folks, the final post of my Web 2.0 memoir. Thanks for reading over the past 14 months and please consider buying the book. -> After leaving ReadWriteWeb in October 2012, it becomes apparent that the Web 2.0 era is over. I reflect on what the Web 2.0 bubble meant and how the internet industry continues to evolve. https://cybercultural.com/p/067-end-of-web20/ #InternetHistory #Web20

In early December 2011, I travel to San Francisco for due diligence with SAY Media as it prepares to acquire ReadWriteWeb. Then, on the 14th, the transaction goes through and I no longer own RWW. (part 065 of my Web 2.0 memoir, which completes the 20 chapters! Just 2 more posts to go, for the book's epilogue) https://cybercultural.com/p/065-selling-readwriteweb/ #InternetHistory #Web20

The day after the final Web 2.0 Summit closes in October 2011, Sean and I visit the SAY Media office in San Francisco to meet its CEO. In the days after, SAY presents an offer to acquire ReadWriteWeb. (part 064 of my Web 2.0 memoir) https://cybercultural.com/p/064-saymedia-offer-for-readwriteweb/ #InternetHistory #Web20

In October 2011 in San Francisco, I attend what turns out to be the last ever Web 2.0 conference. During the event, my COO Sean and I meet with 5 potential acquirers for ReadWriteWeb. (part 063 of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir; and the start of the final chapter!) https://cybercultural.com/p/063-the-last-web20-conference-2011/ #InternetHistory #Web20

As we near the conclusion of my Web 2.0 memoir, we're now in the second half of 2011...and it's tough times for ReadWriteWeb. I worry about my relationship with Marshall, as I try to manage ructions within the writing team. It goes from bad to worse when several of our writers get poached by tech blog competitors. https://cybercultural.com/p/061-blog-business-pressure/ #InternetHistory #Web20

ReadWriteWeb's two-day conference in the summer of 2011 in New York City has amazing presenters and content, but attendance is disappointing and we lose money. After, there is a difficult face-to-face meeting and we part ways with another community manager. https://cybercultural.com/p/060-rww-2way-summit-nyc-2011/ #InternetHistory #Web20