The following table is meant as a quick translation guide for novice to intermediate surfers attempting to “grok” the new Web 2.0 terminology. It is meant to be cut out and laminated and is guaranteed to make your next barcamp, meetup, or geek dinner more productive and good. This guide is provided as a courtesy to friends and strangers alike – we’re just happy for the opportunity to make the world a less awkward place to mingle.
| Dot-Com era | Web 2.0 |
|---|---|
| AOL | MySpace |
| applets | script.aculo.us |
| bookmarks | bookmarks |
| broadcast.com | last.fm |
| ColdFusion | Ruby (what?) |
| Flash | ajax |
| forums | blogs |
| FrontPage | ExpressionEngine |
| Geocities | 9rules |
| Hacker Proof | Standards-Compliant |
| Hamster Dance | Will It Blend? |
| heavy | funny or die |
| hits | uniques |
| homesite | textmate |
| HotBot | |
| hotmail | gmail |
| hot-or-not | hot-or-not |
| HotWired | TechCrunch |
| html | xhtml |
| ICQ | Pownce |
| impressions | clicks |
| The Internet | internets |
| IRC | |
| keywords | tags |
| macromedia | Adobe |
| mondo mini shows | The Show |
| Napster | youtube |
| Netscape Navigator Gold | Flock |
| pageviews | attention |
| Palm V | iPhone |
| perl | php |
| pointcast | Google Reader |
| push | RSS |
| rollover | hover |
| search (v) | google (v) |
| Shockwave | WoW |
| slashdot | digg |
| sticky | engaging |
| tables | divs |
| testing for AOL | testing for IE |
| wallpapers | themes |
| WebMonkey | AListApart |
| webrings | blogrolls |
| web safe | semantically correct |
| window.status | microformats |
| VolanoChat | second life |
| Yahoo! | Mahalo |
Let’s say I wanted to talk about Al Gore’s invention of the internet in web 2.0 fashion, what would you suggest?
Jula - July 13, 2007
It’s now considered to be Tim Berners-Lee’s web.
aaron - July 13, 2007
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University Update - AJAX - Dot-Com to Web 2.0 Thesaurus - July 13, 2007
I realize this is a joke, but why does ColdFusion (or CFML for that matter; one is a product, the other a language) get tagged as old school dot-com?
Same with Flash, which is behind YouTube and Pownce.
Geof Harries - July 13, 2007
Hey Geof. Are you suggesting ColdFusion is Web 2.0?
aaron - July 13, 2007
Perhaps not – it may not be young, shiny and sexy enough – but in its place could be Perl, CGI or ASP.
Geof Harries - July 13, 2007
[...] Web 2.0 Cheat Sheet: If your brain is still stuck in the dot-com era, clip and save this Dot-Com to Web 2.0 Thesaurus from Electric Pulp. Remember, Will it Blend is the new Hampster Dance. [...]
Weekend Reader | Virtual Business News - July 14, 2007
I have nothing to add, except that I kind of miss webrings.
Let’s start a webring. I would like Electric Pulp to create a webring for me and people like me. I have a budget of $2,000…
Corey V. - July 16, 2007
Very cute! But until they put a 3g chip in the iPhone, it’ll be Web 1.0 to me…
Michael Clarke - July 16, 2007
the link for digg, and second life are missing, just a thought. and i wouldn’t consider ajax being the 2.0 version of flash
Jordon Lakoduk - July 16, 2007
Hey Jordan, thanks for pointing out the missing links. I’m standing my ground on the Flash to ajax cut, though. Before it was FLV, it was the de facto make it move technology.
@Corey – just tell us where to send the first invoice…
aaron - July 16, 2007
Pretty nice list.. Flash is def not trump’d by the JAX… but the jAX is def creepin in
amul - July 25, 2007
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