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HISTORY OF THE WEB 2.0 (3)

Article ghost July 1999: Darcy DiNucci can coined the label Web 2.0.

[Image from Darcy DiNucci professional web page: tothepoint.com]

In July 1999, dating back some callers an article that first mentioned the term Web 2.0 and what used to anticipate a change of course on the internet. But only kept vague reference made by some witnesses in some places that only a painstaking scrutiny of the network to retrieve. The label was applied to something that logically not anticipated that the details of Web 2.0 has become but offered some conceptual similarities and. ..

… And you can not go much beyond this weak track because the direction in which it was published, http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/383501-1.html, is no longer available. Unable to find such an article in Allbussiness.com, or anywhere else. One possibility: the file is gone; another: never existed. You can not ignore the fact that references to that article ghost appear precisely in a controversy that is roughly battle for those dates on the network.

One of the most informative references, not so much, appears online in a dispute in which he discusses, among other things that we are not going to move forward now, who would attribute the paternity of the invention.

Throughout the hectic and busy online discussion (4) two people allude to a 1999 article they read in Allbusiness:

John McCormac [05.26.06 06:26 PM]

http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/383501-1.html so it seems you (5) did not invent the term “

That same day, we keep another source that provides the title of the article: Fragmented Future and the author’s name Darcy Dinucci (6), a woman whose profession is defined as information architect as we can trace in another paper (7).

In the July 1999 issue of Print magazine, Darcy DiNucci wrote a piece titled “Fragmented Future” about Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0. I managed to track down a copy on the Web that you can find here: http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/383501-1.html,

Reading it, you can not help but see some similarities between her vision for Web 2.0 and the way the term is used today.

In addition, we have seen, this caller said that Dinucci facing Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, which also would for the first time.

In the following days we can trace references to this article at some other sites, but with the same vagueness (8). As these lines are published in Seomoz.com as a quotation from a passage in Fragmented Future:

Web 1.0. The relationship of Web 1.0 to the Web of tomorrow is roughly the equivalence of Pong to The Matrix. (…) The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that might develop Embryo. (9)

In the absence of any direct recording on this article is awaiting trial on Dinucci explicit attribution of authorship of the label.

However, it is available other articles by the same author who, in times of the legendary pioneers of the Internet began writing for various publications. As enshrined in the defunct url http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/383501-1.html, came from a publication, Print Magazine, in which between 1998 and 1999 he wrote the page Design and New Media (10 ).

Reviewing articles published by the Dinucci and in other publications, is reinforced the credibility of a conjecture in Fragmented Future on a “Web 2.0).

Indeed, the articles of Dinucci are no longer available online in Print Magazine, but we can find other Dinucci to http://findarticles.com/p/search?qt=Darcy.

In July 1998, for example, wrote in Mcweek (11) an article entitled Designing the Web: Better bandwidth may speed adoption of Web multimedia, which envisions that the technical improvement of internet precipitated the advent of multimedia web (12) .

Een January of that year had published another article, After the revolution: The hard tech work is just beginning (13).

In another article this Dinucci-speaking from the perspective of long-designer refers to the revolution that has brought internet, but said that is about to come true changes you make more visible the possibilities of the web:

Think of the current state of Web technology as Akin to the state of industrialization around, oh, 1910. (Bear with me here.) The first rush of invention is over, and the basic concepts are in place. We can not predict what kind of world those technologies will create, but we pretty much know what they are. (14)

And as pointed out key elements of the spread and maturation emerging technologies such as appointing:

style sheets, Java, ECMAScript and the like – offer a solid and flexible framework for the future of Web publishing.

That is, cites key elements in the development of the web as we have known it then and the different definitions of what we have running by calling Web 2.0. It also refers to the need for a new browser or at least a refinement of the Explorer from Microsoft (references to the role of the Mozilla browser in the lists of Web 2.0 applications).

That is, Dinucci not predicted how would be exactly the scenario that we envisage today, but already is thinking about in 1998 in which direction the Web was going to give his next jump, and probably in 1999 coined the label “Web 2.0″.

Plots plausible therefore, in effect, which would end up using a label, Web 2.0, to refer to it, as commentators say the missing article Fragmented Future.

Note .- We have succeeded in contact with Dinucci and we look forward to that documented this article.

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(4) http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/05/controversy-about-our-web-20-s.html

(5) Engaging Tim O’Reilly.

(6) http://thomashawk.com/2006/05/tim-oreilly-sends-cease-and-desist-to.html

(7) http://slant.avenuea-razorfish.com/1006_slant/webVickers.pdf

(8) For example, on May 28 of that year, two days later in the chat EdTechTalk http://edtechtalk.com/node/126alk.com/node/126

(9) http://www.seomoz.org/blog/oreilly-medialive-didnt-coin-the-term-web-20

(10) According Dinucci detailed in its business web page: http://www.tothepoint.com/Printcolumn.html

(11) now defunct, its contents are archived and available from Findarticles.com.

(12) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MWK/is_n27_v12/ai_20924567 Although reflects with insecuriy and with doubts as seen in the passage: Even if bandwidth becomes plentiful Suddenly, I doubt that sound and video will become integral parts of the Web experience. Those are the least of interactive media: The pace of their playback, not users’ choices, you set the agenda. I can not imagine how that would change, but then again, the Web has proven notoriously hard to predict. These developments mean that at least the experimentation will finally begin, and those assumptions will be tested.

(13) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MWK/is_n4_v12/ai_20191072

(14)  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MWK/is_n4_v12/ai_20191072

All references accessible online on October 23, 2008.

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