I know people will be piling on about Grokipedia, but hilariously its definition of Web 2.0 seems to be much better than Wikipedia's. On Grokipedia's page, there's a great description of misinformation on platforms like X and Facebook. Wikipedia does not mention any of that. Refs: 1.

Grokipedia

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 denotes the second generation of the World Wide Web, characterized by dynamic websites that emphasize user-generated content, interactivity...

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Web 2.0 - Wikipedia

(p.s. Grokipedia cites my internet history website Cybercultural.com twice, whereas Wikipedia ignores it! C'mon Wikipedia, get with it.)

A new project out of MIT is building open, decentralized infrastructure for AI agents as an alternative to proprietary platforms. As I note in the post, shades of the fediverse here! https://thenewstack.io/how-mits-project-nanda-aims-to-decentralize-ai-agents/

Today, October 21, 2025, there is a rally in San Francisco in support of @npub1umd6...wfr7. Tomorrow, the Internet Archive is having a party to celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived. To show my appreciation for their most famous creation, the Wayback Machine, this week's Cybercultural post takes you back 24 years to its launch. Thank-you @npub1ftlr...3e6s and long live the Internet Archive!

Cybercultural

2001: The Internet Gets a Memory With the Wayback Machine

In October 2001, Brewster Kahle demonstrates a new time machine from the Internet Archive called the Wayback Machine. It will become a vital link b...

#InternetHistory

This week on Cybercultural, I look back on Steve Jobs' January 2001 keynote at Macworld SF, when he announced iTunes and Apple's new "digital hub" concept. This was pre-iPod and of course pre-iPhone. The new strategy set the company up for a renaissance in the 21st century, when *everything* became digital.

Cybercultural

2001: Steve Jobs Launches iTunes and Apple’s Digital Hub

With the announcement of iTunes in January 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs ushers in the legal digital music era. It also marks the beginning of Apple's...

#InternetHistory #ClassicApple

Let's take a trip back to the year 2000, 25 long internet years ago. A year in which Flash websites proliferate, blogging expands, social news sites like Slashdot gain influence — all of this while the dot-com bubble slowly deflates and Napster dominates headlines.

Cybercultural

What the Internet Was Like in 2000

In 2000, Flash websites proliferate, blogging expands, social news sites like Slashdot gain influence — all of this while the dot-com bubble slow...

#InternetHistory (special thanks to @npub1uaxy...25kn & @npub18dr9...hhph for suggesting Homestar Runner, the perfect Flash website suggestion for that year!)

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Sharing our thoughts and plans behind sharing collections of accounts in the Fediverse.

This week on Cybercultural, let's re-live the Year of Napster: Shawn Fanning wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards, Lars Ulrich testifying to Senate and whining to the media (but in retrospect, was he right after all?!), Judge Patel calling Napster a monster, the media dreaming of a "heavenly jukebox", and — amid it all — a new legal alternative quietly emerges: SoundJam (soon to be known as iTunes).

Cybercultural

2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox

Napster's legal woes intensify in 2000, even as creator Shawn Fanning is celebrated on MTV and on magazine covers. Meanwhile, Apple acquires a star...

#InternetHistory #Napster #iTunes

In this week's Web Technology News, I discuss my interview with Evan You — the creator of Vite and (I'm suggesting) one of the new rock stars of web development.

Web Technology News

WTN #8: The New Rock Stars of Web Development

I got to talk to one of the rock stars of frontend development this week. No, not DHH! I mean a young man named Evan You, whose Vite build tool is ...

As usual, you'll also find other news in these 3 categories: Web Platform, Open Social Web, Web + AI. Fedi folk featured in this week's newsletter: @npub15z3w...0xrp, @npub1ufhq...mjqv, [@_elena](

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Elena Rossini ⁂ (@_elena@mastodon.social)

661 Posts, 449 Following, 10.4K Followers · Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS 🎬 Director of...

), @npub1dgjj...m5xf, @npub1j2m3...ngt0, @npub1trrk...wc45 You can sign up to WTN via email and/or follow [@feed](

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Web Technology News

Insights on the Web’s future — infrastructure, open networks, and AI. By Richard MacManus, pioneering tech blogger and founder of ReadWriteWeb.

) here on Mastodon.

For my 'one more thing' on WTN this week ( [@feed](

Web Technology News

Web Technology News

Insights on the Web’s future — infrastructure, open networks, and AI. By Richard MacManus, pioneering tech blogger and founder of ReadWriteWeb.

) ) I highlighted some lovely web community action from 2000. The image attached is from Anita Rowland's weblog that year, describing a meetup with fellow Seattle bloggers (2 legendary bloggers, @npub1prsj...eh8y and @npub19re3...ftse, were among them). It's a reminder that the web is all about human connection — and we should never forget that.

Web Technology News

WTN #7: Chrome Becomes an AI Browser, With Agents To Come

This week, we may have witnessed the beginning of the end for the traditional web browser. On Thursday, Google announced a raft of new AI features ...

It’s happened: Google Chrome is now an AI browser https://thenewstack.io/chrome-switches-on-ai-the-future-of-browsing-begins-now/