This group was created because we've had enough of this ridiculous marketing taint that has been going on for the past few years.

I say we just drop the "2.0" suffix entirely and bring it back to a state of purity by going back to just calling it "The Web." The web was never meant to be a versioned medium in the first place.

How do you think Tim Berners-Lee feels about all this? (Not very pleased, I'd say: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/berners-lee_disses_web20.php .)

Every time you say «Web eval("1+1").0», a kitten dies. To this day 15,135,683,013,049,201 kitten mortalities have occurred because of this repeated act of human cruelty.

Stop the massacre. Don't call it _that_ any more.


JUST TO BE CLEAR, this isn't a boycott against the technology, but against the NAME. (read less)

This group was created because we've had enough of this ridiculous marketing taint that has been going on for the past few years.

I say we just drop the "2.0" suffix entirely and bring it back to a state of purity by going back to just calling it "The Web." The web was never meant to be a versioned medium in the first place.

How do you think Tim Berners-Lee feels about all this? (Not very pleased, I'd say: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/berners-lee_disses_web20.php .)

Every time you... (read more)