12-02-2016, 11:35 AM
Yeah the flashing banners are more from the Geocities era.
Web 2.0 was when we decided to make everything needlessly heavy and as intricately designed as possible, depite the fact it was still 2006 and most of the country still had a connection measured in Kbps. Transparent overlays, dark colors, tons of textures and glossiness and trying to make it look as different from print media as possible.
![[Image: fluid.jpg]](http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/traditional_web2_design/fluid.jpg)
![[Image: marchand.jpg]](http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/traditional_web2_design/marchand.jpg)
The term also defines when social media really started to get a foothold, when SEO became a buzzword, and when p2p sharing started to get really huge, and was also probably around the time that high school teachers gave up on harping against Wikipedia. It's also when reddit was born.
So it brought a lot of the functionality we consider a fundamental part of the modern internet, but the design was ahead of itself in a bad way. We got fixated on making the bitchinest pages we possible could, forgetting that most of our audience would have trouble loading a high resolution background photo on each page. Varying screen size was only just starting to be a concern, which is why "responsive design" became the next buzzword circa 2010, when we actually started to think about how to present information quickly across all devices.
Web 2.0 was when we decided to make everything needlessly heavy and as intricately designed as possible, depite the fact it was still 2006 and most of the country still had a connection measured in Kbps. Transparent overlays, dark colors, tons of textures and glossiness and trying to make it look as different from print media as possible.
The term also defines when social media really started to get a foothold, when SEO became a buzzword, and when p2p sharing started to get really huge, and was also probably around the time that high school teachers gave up on harping against Wikipedia. It's also when reddit was born.
So it brought a lot of the functionality we consider a fundamental part of the modern internet, but the design was ahead of itself in a bad way. We got fixated on making the bitchinest pages we possible could, forgetting that most of our audience would have trouble loading a high resolution background photo on each page. Varying screen size was only just starting to be a concern, which is why "responsive design" became the next buzzword circa 2010, when we actually started to think about how to present information quickly across all devices.
Now: 07 Porsche Cayman S | 18 VW Tiguan
Then: 18 VW GTI Autobahn | 95 BMW M3 | 15 VW GTI SE | 12 Kia Optima SX | 2009 VW GTI | 00 BMW 540i Sport | 90 Mazda Miata | 94 Yamaha FZR600R | 1993 Suzuki GS500E | 2003 BMW 325i | 95 Saab 900S