the shifts and cycle have been fascinating in the past 20 years….
search x curation
public web x private web
search engines x aggregators
independent island x content platforms
paywalls, free content
hobby niche sites x hustle branding presence
for viewership x self expression x autotelic (all valid and understandable. different games)
wordpress is still the best, most accessible tool. hugo and other static site generators are still too nerdy
webflow figma nocode tools are for early adopters still
discoverability, at mercy of algorithms from FAANG, or major players
amazon, google, adsense, YouTube, medium, twitter, wiped out, dead, you’re dependent
condensed x expanded (microblogging x long(er) form)
forums and blogs used to be a thing
dark web public web private web cozy web (chat)
marketplaces, indieweb, wikipedia initiated
blogs, indie simple DIY homepages. geocities tripod, modblog, blogspot, wordpress, Friendster, myspace. era of self expression. tumblr, neocities, webring
adsense craze, spam blogs. penalties
napster, limeware, irc, index of mp3
file sharing sites, warez forums
DMCA claims and takedowns
mobile first era, mobile sites, mobile apps, native hybrid web. PWA
video, audio, streaming, with the infrastructure improving (omg, realmedia, napster)
freeware shareware adware malware brainware
freeware, shareware, adware, and then shift to subscription model, web-based apps
desktop x web based x mobile
windows, linux, osx
offline desktop shareware one-time, subscription, saas, paas
mirc icq aol yahoo messenger facebook whatsapp line wechat telegram signal
email slack twist (what that app from todoist?)
discord twittch periscope vine
phpbb, vbulletin, discourse
ewallet emoney, micropayments, libra, WA payment (FB Pay), these browsers with payment options (blockchain), fintech
paypal 2checkout authorize.net, braintree, stripe
real identity, pseudonymous, multiple identities (fb, anon account on twitter, tumblr)
private list / constrained/exclusive social network e.g path
content: ephemeral x forever (snapchat x due diligence from HR)
photos. flickr instagram
portfolios. deviantart dribble
jobstreet jobsdb monster indeed LinkedIn
freelancer.com, odesk, upwork, fiverr
never changed: email. what is SILC
podcasts, RSS, blogs, corporate websites, academia plain text sites
offline office apps, cloud
server side client side
incentives, advertising hits web1.0? banner, PPC, adsense
cgi bin php ajax (2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20080821140921/https://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php) js asp net jsp codeigniter cakephp
oop mvc
imperative functional declarative
“big data” batched stream clojure
rdbms nosql key value
static sites (read only), dynamic, web 2.0 (convo aka read/write web, network effect, platforms, APIs, interconnected entities), web 3.0 is supposed to be semantic web (deeper underlying theme: trust, interop, verifiability, and decentralisation?) but seems like it became the mobile wave, and then the bloated web as it is now (web development became so complicated but powerful, crossing over between server and client side)
self driving, AI, gig economy, on demand, service as a function, serverless
shared storage, all to and from the cloud
death of flash macromedia to adobe, coldfusion. html5 and JS revolution
jquery to node to angular to react
iOS and android. java kotlin swift
oh bitcoin. block chain
and newsletters are hot again
and now, seeing sentiments towards people being sick of the social web, and missing the classic simple web 1.0? discoverability is the real theme.
personal blogs, cheesy, quirky, lightweight, are making a comeback
RSS too. people miss these? it’s still there though, never went away
dotcom bubble, startups, unicorn
3d printing, location based apps
recommendation engines (last fm, stumbleupon (2005))
social bookmarking (digg, delicious, pocket, diigo, pinterest, reddit(?))
ecommerce, downfall of offline / traditional retail, digital transformation
email: superman, june.ai, hey.com
News.me, Flipboard, Zite, Prismatic
IoT, security, privacy, owning your data, surveillance, ad-based biz model
and now, microsoft is cool again
google is now evil
FB and Amazon rule, after Apple
then they are all evil
redemption, empires come and go
field journalism -> citizen journalism
self driving cars
on-demand services. everything unbundled
sharing economy
