Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)
1999
Term Web 2.0 Coined by Darcy DiNucci

Firmly in what many believe is the Web3 era, this nomenclature was first developed over twenty years prior. Darcy DiNucci coined the term “Web 2.0” in her article “Fragmented Future” for Print magazine. The designation was meant to underscore the Web fragmenting across devices as a transport layer. Web 2.0 includes early social networking platforms, forums, wikis and multimedia sharing sites such as Joshua Davis’s praystation.v0. Tim O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty popularized the term even further in 2004 when they hosted a Web 2.0 conference.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Dale Dougherty, Darcy DiNucci, Joshua Davis, Tim O'Reilly
Movements
digital art
Filed under
- Ideas
- digital art
- Technologies
- social media, Web 2.0, Web3, World Wide Web
- People
- Dale Dougherty, Darcy DiNucci, Joshua Davis, Tim O'Reilly
- Works
- Fragmented Future, ps0.praystation.v0
- Organisations
- Print Magazine, Web 2.0 Conference
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Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić — listen with transcript on Le Random (11 Apr 2024, 77 min). Featuring Joshua Davis. Chapter 7’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 1—Pre-Modern Era with Marius Watz — listen with transcript on Le Random (06 Jul 2023, 46 min). Featuring Joshua Davis. Apple Podcasts · Spotify