Next versions of HTTP, URI and HTML will be even more important.

“Just as many of the practices and ideas subsumed under the ‘Web 2.0’ label in fact preceded the term in important ways, so too have they outlasted it. Though use of the term itself has waxed and waned, its fundamental (if sometimes conflicting) ideals have spread outwards — winding their way through cultural and social shifts as well as subtle technological and economic reconfigurations — and continue to inform contemporary discussions of new platforms and practices.”

Michael Zimmer and Anna Lauren Hoffmann ~ First Monday 21.6 ★