Someone please correct me if I’m barking up the wrong tree here, but all this Web 2.0 malarkey (I’ll explain later if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about) is a bit of a con. A saucy tart from afar, but an old lady with black teeth up close.
Why?
I have been very excited about it. There are some great candidates for Web 2.0 App Of The Day, like:
And many, many others. I have been toying with the idea of knocking something up in this new-fangled technology and in my quest for knowledge, I have quickly determined that the foundation of all of this business is something that Larry Ellison told us would hapeen over a decade ago.
That’s right. Network Computing. Or to put it even more simply, and to go back even further than Ellison - the Client/Server model, most faithfully epitomised by Unix and the X Window system, something I used to mock almost two decades ago, but whose time, in the form of a faithful browser and the XhtmlRequestWhatsit command, has surely come.
David, tell me I’m wrong, please?
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de 04.26.06 at 1:39 am
In the beginning dumb terminals talked slowly to large servers. Then PCs talked to nothing. Then expensive PCs talked slowly to servers. Then cheaper PCs talked faster to smaller servers. Now cheap PCs talk to other cheap PCs.
Yeah, Larry put his money behind computing as a utility. The NC was the return of the dumb terminal. He couldn’t quite sell it at the time.
Web 2.0 is a grandiose term for the newer apps that move more data into a shared space. Usually your data.
But no, there isn’t a new computing. There are just a lot more people on the internet.