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<h2>Web 1.5 and Berries</h2>
<h3>2023-12-20</h3>
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I was searching this morning for web 1.0 ressources in French. It was
interesting to see the amount of belittleing phrases, from "passive web"
through "documentary web", "Spectator web", etc.
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Web 2.0 is referred to as the "social web", where large companies found
how to make money from this thing through centralisation, javascript,
social networks, online sales, and the massive use of <b>berries</b>. The
descriptions of Web 3.0 and 4.0 are so full of bullshit, acronyms,
marketing speak, and futurism, it's not worth commenting on.
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<p>Berries? you might ask.</p>
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Human evolution has included colour sight to enable the picking of ripe
fruit and avoidance of dangerous meats or insects.
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Icons tap into this evolutionary advantage. Images that target our
attention in order to vehicule an emotional response are another. Their
use sometimes has the side effect of manipulating you, the reader. Today
they are also used to track you or vehicule code.
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The current web plunges the reader in a (sometimes pretty) morass of
background images, icons, adverts, gadgets, etc. that distract you from
noticing that perhaps there's not much actual content.
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It also slows web sites dramatically. Try looking at most recipe web sites
for an example. Now visit Luke Smith's
<a href="https://based.cooking/">Based Cooking</a> (He had a rant about
this a while back)
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Scrolling through Facebook's litany of meme's, repeated jokes, and plain
rubbish, will also make you realise that there's very little content. What
remains, is formatted and presented in an identical fashion, much like
visiting adjacent prison cells. It also dissapears quickly, buried under
more meme's, repeated jokes, and rubbish. And while you are rotting your
brain in this manner, you are being tracked mercilessly while your soul is
sold for a few deniers.
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In a nutshell, web 1.0 wasn't something to simply discard, and while
technological advances are indiscutable, (UTF-8, CSS, backend
scripting,..) the uses they have been put to sometimes definitely are.
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I'm no monk: I still need to get to my bank, make the odd online purchase,
etc. but I think it's possible to have in parallel a reasoned web simply
by editing web sites responsably. Not by throwing out the baby with the
bathwater, but eliminating the chaff, reducing the C02 footprint, reducing
the illisibility, making it faster, making it easier for people with
reduced sight to enjoy the content, making sure it can be read in all
browsers, stop tracking in it's... tracks, and getting to the point.
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<p>How about calling it Web 1.5 ?</p>
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