Web 2.0 Social Networking Synergy

October 7, 2005 8:03 PM

Welcome to Supr.c.ilio.us, the World's First Social Social Tagging Site Tagging Site™. This is the place to come to tag all those other tagging sites. (But...is it Web 2.0 Or Not?)
posted by Jimbob (27 comments total)

Suprcilious?

Theese Domain names are just getting redonk.youl.us
posted by delmoi at 8:13 PM on October 7, 2005

Excellent use of the "bandwagon" tag.
posted by dersins at 8:45 PM on October 7, 2005

The folksosphere of social tagonomic metalinkcasting is the wave of the future! Web 2.0 is passing away, Web Vista Home Edition is around the corner!
posted by brownpau at 8:59 PM on October 7, 2005

Do I have to wait for a second one to start up before I can make my world's first social tagging site tagging site tagging site?
posted by pompomtom at 9:10 PM on October 7, 2005

The whatmacallit now?
posted by wheelieman at 9:19 PM on October 7, 2005

The whatmacallit now?

Uh, it's actually wh.atc.ha.macal.lit.com!
posted by ericb at 9:24 PM on October 7, 2005

i'm sure you mean whatcha.macall.it!
posted by slater at 9:57 PM on October 7, 2005

You know, back when I saw the first homepages on my campus back around 93 or so, I predicted that we would have entire networks of people, who just link to other people, who just link to other people …
posted by KirkJobSluder at 10:03 PM on October 7, 2005

this site is so... meta. it's harshing my buzz.
posted by shmegegge at 10:33 PM on October 7, 2005

homepages on my campus back around 93

/pendant/

Maybe a year later, since the first beta (version 0.9) of a web browser -- "Mosaic" (later called Netscape Navigator) was available in October 1994 (with version 1.0 available in December 1994).

/pendant/
posted by ericb at 12:23 AM on October 8, 2005

It was indeed 1993 when Mosaic 1.0, according to wiki.ped.ia, the famous Iowan site.
posted by lukemeister at 12:44 AM on October 8, 2005

oops, when Mosaic came out, that is.
posted by lukemeister at 12:46 AM on October 8, 2005

pendant?
/pedant
posted by Jon Mitchell at 7:35 AM on October 8, 2005

Web 2.0 is teh next big thing? Where can I buy stock?
posted by Herr Fahrstuhl at 7:47 AM on October 8, 2005

I stand corrected.
posted by ericb at 8:47 AM on October 8, 2005

I was refering to the history of the "consumer"/public availability of Netscape Navigator (when Jim Clark teamed up with Marc Andreessen et al, forming Mosaic Communications Corporation -- later to be called Netscape Communications Corporation) after which time we really saw homepages start to appear in late 1994/early 1995.

True enough NCSA Mosaic was designed and programmed for Unix's X Window System at NCSA (University of Illinois) and available in 1993.
posted by ericb at 8:57 AM on October 8, 2005

http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm

"when Jim Clark teamed up with Marc Andreessen et al, forming Mosaic Communications Corporation -- later to be called Netscape Communications Corporation"

Netscape Navigator was nickname "Mozilla", as in "Mosaic Killer."
posted by Ayn Marx at 10:14 AM on October 8, 2005

This may help elucidate things:

Bubble 2.0
posted by MetaMonkey at 10:32 AM on October 8, 2005

So... that Bubble 2.0 author is fighting against the Web 2.0 utopians... by strangling them to death with buzzwords?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 11:02 AM on October 8, 2005

someone please enlightenmen me as to whats so revolutionary about web 2.0? hasnt the internet always been a massive web of people linking to each other and sharing their opinions?. also, werent people always updating their sites with new opinions or links. its always been pretty easy to do. im tired of annoying hipsters wetting themselves over making up confusing buzzwords to define pretty straightforward things.
posted by mingusmingus at 12:29 PM on October 8, 2005

im tired of annoying hipsters wetting themselves

So a bunch of programmers are hipsters? Sweet.

Read/Write Web has a pretty good round-up of some/most of the talks at the recent Web 2.0 Conference...it sounds like there is some pretty interesting stuff going on there, if you can get beyond the horrible and confusing buzzword of a title.

Moving beyond the semantic and tired naming issue, I think Supr.c.ilio.us is awesome. And by awesome, I mean funny.
posted by tpl1212 at 1:33 PM on October 8, 2005

mmmm.... I'm drunk.

The The Cernettes had a web page in 1992, but perhaps KirkJobSluder was thinking of personal Gopher Holes...
posted by delmoi at 5:20 PM on October 8, 2005

Well, my memory might have been a bit fuzzy, given how positively banal the inital smattering of early web pages happened to be at the time, even compared to gopher. It had to have been 'round 93 as I distinctly remember that it was before the marriage and graduation. Of course at the time there wasn't that much to look at, just a handful of students and faculty and various institutions saying "hey look at me." The timeline helpfully provided by lukemeister confirmed my memory because I also seemed to remember that part of the fun was working with beta software. The timeline also suggests that it was fairly quickly ported by NCSA to Windows and Macintosh.

At any rate, I've been around the block on this form of utopianism (and fed enough of it) to recognize the cycle come 'round again. I'll sit this bit of hype out.
posted by KirkJobSluder at 6:32 PM on October 8, 2005

At any rate, I've been around the block on this form of utopianism (and fed enough of it) to recognize the cycle come 'round again. I'll sit this bit of hype out.

Well, I'm sure people will make a ton of money. To bad all the resonable domain names are taken and everything sounds rediculous.
posted by delmoi at 7:20 PM on October 8, 2005

"What did the dot.com boom teach us? Terrible half-formed ideas lead to short-lived wins." -Scary Go Round
posted by KirkJobSluder at 7:37 PM on October 8, 2005

this ended up being the funniest thread i've seen on MeFi in weeks.
posted by poweredbybeard at 2:45 PM on October 9, 2005

(Bows gracefully)
posted by Jimbob at 6:05 PM on October 9, 2005