I’ve decided to return to something I had been neglecting for a while: technology. Back in the day I was heavily involved in the IT field but then I got out of it just as everything was starting to connect together. It came to my attention a few years ago that the web was changing. My first notice of this was when I first noticed that my new web browser (an early version of Firefox) had a Latest Headlines button that showed the latest headlines on BBC News when clicked on. Hmmm…. This was my first notice of RSS. Later I started blogging and noticed RSS all over the place like on Blogger and MySpace.

Now the web is becoming more interactive. I’m old school. I still remember browsing the web with lynx in a telnet session—all text with no pictures. I still remember the first time I used Mosaic and saw what a web page with images looked like. It was all I wanted the old BBS systems to be but they never got there. I still remember the first time background images appeared in Netscape. Then there was Java and Javascript. I still remember when hotmail was the first web based e-mail program.

We’ve come a long way since then. Now we have blogs, feeds, podcasts, tweets, myspace pages, facebook profiles, wiki’s, and about a million other things that make the web more interactive and interesting. Welcome to Web 2.0. Web 1.0 is dead. Long live Web 2.0 (until web 3.0 comes out).

Justin 2.0