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what, when we still called it "Web 2.0"?
Not sure what we called it to be honest. I didn't even have a computer yet and mostly accessed from work. I'm talking the days when my haunts were the Mxit app on my dumb java phone, the chatrooms on the Offspring's website (somewhere around the release of Conspiracy of One), MySpace and a South African alternative scene forum called MakeSomeNoise. I think MySpace was just MySpace and didn't have a special term.
I used the internet as a kid in the '90s a little bit too, but that was mostly for finding cheat codes for video games back then.
Edit: also not sure I understand how "web 2.0" refers to forum sites and chat rooms in particular.
"Web 2.0" was the buzzword for websites that featured user-provided content rather than content provided by the site creator. "Platforms" in the "platform vs. publisher" distinction that was getting a lot of discussion five-ten years ago.
Huh, in all these years, I thought "web 2.0" was just describing a new design style or monetization method or some shit. Had no idea it was referring to user created content. So thanks for the history lesson!
I definitely heard the term back then but yeah, I just assumed and never actually bothered reading up on it or anything.
Technically it was both a new design paradigm and a new monetization scheme, in that you'd get people to provide you content for free that you collect as revenue or even subscription fees on.