I think some immediate action is needed to prevent people from referring to the web before platformization as "read only web".
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I think some immediate action is needed to prevent people from referring to the web before platformization as "read only web".
These recent rewriting of the history is really disturbing.Apart of being not true, this statement doesn't support Patreon's CEO argument at all, so why he jumps on the web3 rhetoric I don't know...
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Lie #️⃣ 1️⃣ Tim Berners-Lee called web 1.0 “read-only web”
“The first iteration of the web represents the web 1.0, which, according to Berners-Lee, is the “read-only web.”
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/Basic-Definitions-Web-1-0-Web-2-0-Web-3-0 2007 “According to Tim Berners-Lee the first implementation of the web, representing the Web 1.0, could be considered as the “read-only web.”
https://flatworldbusiness.wordpress.com/flat-education/previously/web-1-0-vs-web-2-0-vs-web-3-0-a-bird-eye-on-the-definition/ 2014 -
“The first iteration of the web represents web 1.0, which, according to Berners-Lee, is the “read-only web.”
https://sis.binus.ac.id/2022/07/21/the-differences-between-web-1-0-web-2-0-and-web-3-0/ (2022)This phrase is used as something self-evident, but never properly referenced.
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There is one “academic” article in Google's top results "World Wide Web and Its Journey from Web 1.0 to Web 4.0”(Nupur Choudhury) https://ijcsit.com/docs/Volume%205/vol5issue06/ijcsit20140506265.pdf (2014)
It makes an attempt to root this term: “Web 1.0 was first implementation of the web and it lasted from 1989 to 2005. It was define as web of information connections. According to the innovator of World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee considers the Web as “read-only” Web [1].” -
Richard MacManusreplied to olia lialina last edited by [email protected]
@GIFmodel I agree he never phrased it like that. Fwiw I was definitely inspired by TBL to name my blog Read/WriteWeb (per my launch post in April 2003: https://web.archive.org/web/20030809061335/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/04/20.html), but I don’t think he used that exact term. I had always thought that was his vision, as his original browser was read/write. It was Mosaic and the browsers that came after that took away that functionality. Blogging did essentially bring it back, in that it made writing to the web easier.
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olia lialinareplied to Richard MacManus last edited by
@ricmac exactly! This is what I want to write about in Lie#2 or Lie#3 and what @julienbidoret and @stgiga write about in their posts: there is no technical (browser) justification for the web to be "read only".
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Richard MacManusreplied to olia lialina last edited by
@GIFmodel @julienbidoret @stgiga In another of my very early RWW posts, I quoted this from TBL’s book: "the browser would decode URIs, and let me read, write, or edit Web pages in HTML". https://web.archive.org/web/20031224014501/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/05/15.html#a10
