[Yr7-10it] web 1 = windows 98 ?

victor rajewski askvictor at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 21:18:00 EST 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> left a comment on your blog, Rob
>
> btw web2.0 was initially conceived as an O'Reilly marketting slogan - they
> applied for a trademark and told a non profit organisation they couldn't use
> the term at their conference
>
> http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreilly-trademarks-web-20-and-sets-lawyers-on-itcork/

Oh man; I had so much more respect for O'Reilly until I read that.
They really struck me as the company that understood the future of
information.

And then the lawyers and shareholders came along.

vik


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