Web 1.0

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since May 2008.

This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2008)

Web 1.0 refers to the state of the World Wide Web, and website design style before the Web 2.0 craze, and included most websites in the period between 1994 and 2004. It is important to note that "Web 1.0" is a retronym. That is to say that it has been retroactively named only after the introduction of the term "Web 2.0", and has very loosely defined boundaries. For the most part websites were a strictly one-way published media, similar to the Gopher protocol that came before it.

Personal web pages were common in Web 1.0, consisting of mainly static pages hosted on free hosting services such as Geocities, nowadays dynamically generated blogs are more popular, often keeping real-time statistics and allowing for readers to comment on posts.

At the Technet Summit in November 2006, Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, stated a simple formula for defining the phases of the Web:

“	Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.	”
—Reed Hastings

1 Design elements of a typical Web 1.0 website
2 See also
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] Design elements of a typical Web 1.0 website

Static pages instead of dynamically generated content
The use of Framesets
Proprietary HTML extensions such as the <blink> and <marquee> tags introduced during the first browser war
Online Guestbooks
GIF buttons, typically 88x31 pixels promoting web browsers and other products^[1]
HTML forms sent via Email - A once common method for submitting HTML forms was via email^[2]. A user would fill in a form, and upon clicking submit their email client would attempt to send an email containing the form's details.