Rise and Fall of the World Wide Web(Words)
Since its birth on August 06 1991, the World Wide Web has spawned numerous words and concepts. Its 17 years of existence probably can be arbitrarily divided into two epochs; the first (circa 1991 to 2000) is broadly dominated by e-commerce and the current one (c. 2001 to present) by social networking. Here are some of the popularly used terms and concepts used in both epochs, so far:
Inventory of Web(Words)
| 1991 – 2000 | 2001 – present | |
|---|---|---|
| Concepts | dot-com e-commerce e-business business-to-business (B2B) business-to-consumer (B2C) e-marketplace B2B exchange portal vortal (vertical portal) peer-to-peer virtual community virtual organization intranet extranet disintermediation digital economy new economy internet relay chat (IRC) ICQ instant messaging information superhighway infobahn cyberspace napterization open source killer app mass customization electronic cash (e-cash) electronic data interchange (EDI) electronic funds transfer (EFT) electronic mall |
web 2.0 enterprise 2.0 social networking platform crowdsourcing blog tag (metadata) / geotagging microblog semantic web software-as-a-service Ajax outsourcing location-based service podcast bittorrent real-time streaming modular mashup wiki user-generated content virtualization cloud computing social computing grid computing mobile internet really simple syndication (RSS) application programming interfaces (APIs) convergence social media social ads perpetual beta virtual world massively multiplayer online role-playing games (mmorpgs) distributed computing widget |
| Dominant Meme | e-commerce | social networking |
| Superstars | Netscape, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, eBay, Geocities, Hotmail, AltaVista, Priceline, Enron, Webvan, AOL, CDNow, Paypal, Napster, Pets.com, eTrade, Hotbot, FreeMarkets, Excite | Google, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Friendster, Digg, Wikipedia, Twitter, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Skype, Delicious, Friendfeed, Second Life |
From Google News Archive, we can see the popularity of both ‘e-commerce’ and ‘social networking’ over the years.
Timeline for “E-Commerce”, 1991 to 2008
Timeline for “Social Networking”, 1991 to 2008
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