Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 smackdown

By at 11:21 am Thursday, Oct 6


Author and BoingBoing band manager John Battelle is hosting the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week -- sounds like this year's edition is a great one (I think Cory's there, too!). Here's press and blog and Flickr coverage: Link.

But the backwards-compatible Web 1.0 conference, pictured above and below, was the place to be last night for folks who lived through the dot-com hype years and secretly miss them. It was held in the rear corner of a back-alley dive bar -- "Listen for people yelling 'Sell! SELL!' into StarTac flip phones," the invite read. Paradigms were shifted, man. Photos.


Xeni Jardin

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