Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Web 2.0 -- Evolution

I read the article "Why the Web is Like a Rain Forest" by Steven Johnson. It highlights the fact that the Web as we know it is evolving from a thing of basic text hyperlinks into something far more versatile. Information feeds on itself, expanding out to touch far more people than it would reach with just static hyperlinks. The world of blogs has exploded, and is a huge part of this change. People are becoming more and more connected, despite having never actually met in the real world in most cases. The world is becoming a smaller place. I remember making my first webpage using raw HTML. It was amazing at the time. It will be interesting to see just what the future brings.

My mother is actually eyeball deep in all this, amusingly. Check out her blog here if you've got time.

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