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 |
July 13th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Let’s say I wanted to talk about Al Gore’s invention of the internet in web 2.0 fashion, what would you suggest?
July 13th, 2007 at 1:15 am
It’s now considered to be Tim Berners-Lee’s web.
July 13th, 2007 at 1:32 am
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July 13th, 2007 at 5:47 am
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:45 am
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.
July 13th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Hey Geof. Are you suggesting ColdFusion is Web 2.0?
July 13th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Perhaps not - it may not be young, shiny and sexy enough - but in its place could be Perl, CGI or ASP.
July 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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July 16th, 2007 at 7:59 am
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…
July 16th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Very cute! But until they put a 3g chip in the iPhone, it’ll be Web 1.0 to me…
July 16th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
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
July 16th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
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…
July 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Pretty nice list.. Flash is def not trump’d by the JAX… but the jAX is def creepin in
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
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