Web 1.0

English

Alternative forms

• Web1, web 1.0

Etymology

To contrast with Web 2.0.

Proper noun

Web 1.0

1. (Internet) The first generation of the World Wide Web, characterized by separate static websites rather than continually-updated weblogs and social networking tools.

   Coordinate terms: Web 2.0, Web 3.0

   • 1999, Darcy DiNucci, “Fragmented Future”, in Print‎^[1], volume 53, number 4, →ISSN, page 220:

     The relationship of Web 1.0 to the Web of tomorrow is roughly the equivalence of Pong to The Matrix.

   • 2022 May 5, Farhad Manjoo, “What Is Happening to the People Falling for Crypto and NFTs”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The original internet boom of the late 1990s, what you might think of as web 1.0, was a time of great stock-market valuations that created a few enduring companies and a lot of dead dot-coms.

Translations

first generation of the WWW

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: Web 1.0 (wep¹ jat¹ dim² ling⁴)

  Mandarin: Web 1.0 (Web yī diǎn líng)

• Finnish: Web 1.0
• German: Web 1.0 n

Further reading

• Web 2.0 § Web 1.0 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia