This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Mister Six: Seriously, the web didn't go properly mainstream (by which I mean having a wide, wide audience - even people who didn't previously use computers - using it) until 1999-2003. In the mid-90s (1995-1997), it was still growing, albeit extremely fast.
Sabre Justice: Marketing idiocy aside, I like to think of Web 2.0 as 'Internet created by people who actually know what they're doing.'
- The internet is not fucking HTTP.
Also, what the hell? Web 2.0 was "hijacked by marketers"? No. It's not. It was fabricated by marketers as a marketing tool. It was meant to make web technologies sound "new" and "cool" again, and it accomplished that. It still failed to have any real meaning. The newness was steeped in the old.
Broken Chaos: No, the internet is not HTTP. But 90%+ of "Web 2.0"? That is HTTP. All that fancy Java Script, and videos, and everything else, is all served to you over good old HTTP. In many ways "Web 2.0" is the progressive elimination of most of the non-HTTP traffic from a user's daily life. Oh the other protocols are still used in the background, but exceedingly rarely by the end-user ('ideally' never in "Web 2.0"), as you get all your music and video over HTTP streams, all your e-mail in a HTML page served over HTTP, and all your files stored on some "cloud" server somewhere served over - you guessed it - HTTP.
