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Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Michael Wesch · explainer · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Michael Wesch's five-minute video about Web 2.0, showing how the read/write web, XML and user-generated content change how people create and share information.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a classic, compact explanation of the read/write web and open data, invoked in threads on the semantic web and open APIs.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Just going to leave this gem of a video[0] here.”

    Classic video on the read/write web

    vmoore, 2022-09 · Strong recommendation · in “The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web”

  2. “great YouTube video explaining the semantic web here”

    Visual explanation of web evolution

    lysergia, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: web 2.0, xml, read write web, digital ethnography, semantic web

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