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Yes, fifteen to twenty years ago, it was used to refer to the emphasis on user-generated content and the generalization of social media.

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What is a regular personal "Web 1.0" website other than "user generated content" though. If anything, "Web 2.0" was the perversion of the original WWW idea by "big tech". We already had the "decentralized web" for a few golden years before the bean counters discovered the internet.

Your personal page is likely largely static (in content, if not tech) and defined by you, the site owner. Web 2 allowed the public site users to generate/curate the content on the site.

This is either outright bullshit or a clumsy attempt at historical revisionism. Web2 didn't introduce technology that wasn't existing before. It was the unwashed masses flooding what had previously been a space of high SNR AND the big corporations seizing control (and terms like "web2" were used to that effect) in order to exploit the herd.

This is happening again now with the web3 fad. A new generation of gullible idiots and sociopaths to take them for a ride.

> Web 2 allowed the public site users to generate/curate the content on the site.

This distinction only matters with centralized platform like AOL, Medium or Facebook though. Wikis existed long before big companies hijacked the web.

> What is a regular personal "Web 1.0" website other than "user generated content" though.

It wasn't user generated. User in this case being the visitor to a website and not its creator.

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