1995 vs 2005, are we thinking different?

Om Malik | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 | 4:58 AM PT | 8 comments

web 1 web 2

The reasons I bring this up - this post by Marc, this article in The New York Times, and yesterday someone showed me a little Xeroxed flyer from an angel investor who was handing it out to entrepreneurs looking for funding at a vertical search conference. Yahoo’s My Web 2.0 by Caterina!

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July 25th, 2005
1:32 AM PT
Lifeblog said:

1995 vs 2005, are we thinking different?

Another view of Web 2.0, comparing it to web 1.0. Let’s party like it’s 1999. Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1995 vs 2005, are we thinking different?. 1995 vs 2005, are we thinking different?VIa Rodrigo.

October 15th, 2005
5:41 PM PT

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June 29th, 2005
8:04 AM PT
Fine James said:

The fact that Real is still around is quite amazing, dude.

June 29th, 2005
8:16 AM PT
Om Malik said:

Good point, I almost forgot about that bit. i guess sometimes your brain tunes out bad news - bad products etc

June 29th, 2005
9:40 AM PT
Also said:

I don’t recall specifically, but yahoo was likely around before pathfinder was.

June 29th, 2005
5:33 PM PT
Om Malik said:

but before pathfinder it was just a search and directory service. it became a portal later.

July 2nd, 2005
10:54 PM PT
Jackson said:

Flash? How about Applets. I don’t think Flash had the same presence as Ajax until 1998-99. (but I could be wrong).

But I think we have come a long way. It is not that the end results have changed so drastically, it is that so many more people are able to participate now. My mother has a Flickr account ;)

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