Web generation-y numbers

Web generations

While we've mostly been making fun of "Web 2.0" since what feels like the late nineties (but was actually a few years later), such terms have also still been used seriously, even if the descriptions are often the optimistism of its early plans rather than of its daily life.

Web 1.0

web of content

static web

Web 2.0

web of communication

basic participation

Web 3.0

web of context

semantic, smart ads/search

Web 4.0

web of things

mobile, personal assistant, connected space, AR

People disagree what we're on - some argue few of us are barely at doing 3 properly, some are on 5 because why not, and higher number is more better

Note that crypto bros have their own unrelated thing they also called called Web3. A decade later it is still not clear what what they mean, what goals that has, as it just seems to mean 'you know, money things with blockchain', and when it gets slightly technical it often bears no relation to anything else on the web.

Some of them have started saying Web4. Presumably because there's one born every minute.

We like numbering things, let's have more

Industry has been retroactively numbered too, because why not

Industry 1.0 - industrial revolution (~1760s)

Industry 2.0 - some electricical solutions (~1840s)

Industry 3.0 - computers introduced (~1970)

Industry 4.0 - more automating (~2000s), IoT

Industry 5.0 - more customization

Also

Quantified Self 2.0 (which surely is Mindfulness 2.0 and not the opposite)