Web phase One, Two, Three
Back to the Future Past The Web transition story from 2.0 to 3.0 Let’s go back to 1997; early days of the digital frontier. Y2K buzz hadn’t started yet, but something else was quietly expanding in the public sphere. Businesses in the United states, and in a few other locations around the world were connecting to a vast information highway known as the internet . Remember, the Desktop Personal Computer was also just entering offices, schools and a few homes at the time. This computer internet connection came with its own web lexicon; - web sites, web chat rooms, web logs with comment sections blogs . The traditional mail box was transformed to email, retrieved from a suite on its own website. Yahoo messenger was an instant messaging early sensation, hosting web chat rooms. In Lagos, Cyber cafe’s were the rave at this point. This digital transformation of a traditional means of communication (post mail) is the case in point. Post mail transf...