Re:An argument for a return to Web 1.0
by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:35PM
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> Technologically, there isn't much to separate the eras
This doesn't seem right. AJAX was one the main breakpoints.
While XMLHttpRequest dates to approximately the same time period, it really didn't get a lot of mindshare until Google used it to implement Gmail's and Google Maps' front ends (2004-2005), which is also when the term AJAX was coined by Jesse James Garrett:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150910072359/http://adaptivepa...
Technologically, there isn't much to separate the eras, except perhaps the deprecation of Big Iron approaches to infrastructure in favor of horizontal scaling with commodity hardware, but that's really a spectrum rather than a sharp division.
The Web 2.0 era really hasn't ended, regardless of how the web and it's infrastructure has evolved in the past 20 years. There are various candidates for what will define the next era, but so far none that are indisputably "it".