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Why is the term "world wide web" no longer used?

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tynamite

To help your understanding of the internet, in the 1990s and early 2000's, or more specifically the Web 1.0 days, the internet was a different place. It's not the same as it was now. In the Web 1.0 days, we had no social networking, Yahoo! was the number 1 website, and we had MSN Encarta instead of Wikipedia. The whole basis of the internet was to create portals, like MSN and Yahoo!, and I don't mean blogs.

To put it short, in the Web 1.0 days, we spent a lot of time clicking hyperlinks, going from site to site, page to page. (Two Yahoo/MSN sites count as two sites.) Nowadays in the Web 2.0 days, we spent our internet experience in mostly the same sites every day. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Wikipedia. People don't surf the internet anymore. The world wide web basically means websites linked together by hyperlinks, and the way the internet is going, that isn't happening so much anymore.

In the Web 2.0 days, the internet is about user generated content, social networking, and web applications.

Websites are now being treat as their own environment, instead of being a part of the environment. To explain what I mean by environment, you might as well get the websites most internet users go on, and use IE9 to pin them to the taskbar, and treat them as applications. Why use Internet Explorer to surf the internet, if you have pinned websites on the taskbar? Websites are being treat as their own seperate entities especially on smartphones, where you open up "applications", that might as well be websites.

Most people who surf the internet are not computer literate. They access very few websites. Ask them how their internet usage has compared from how it is now, to how it was in the 1990s.

Here's an article you would like to read.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

tynamite

Erik

We most certainly did have social networking on the Internet prior to the advent of the World Wide Web and Web Browsers - we used Usenet and E-mail Mailing Lists.

All these newer systems are just fancy dressing on top of text.

tynamite

Me

So I suppose any forum with phpBB was the first social networking website on the world wide web lol.

tynamite

Erik

One could make that argument. One could also argue that some of the web-based interfaces to E-mail (e.g. Yahoo! Mail and Gmail and Hotmail) and Usenet were, also.