Comments on: How do you say it: Web 2[dot]0? Web 2[point]0? Just Web 2-0?

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:14:44 +0000

Haha. Web 2.0 is kind of ridiculous itself. It’s a bit ambiguous.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:58:13 +0000

@Scott Oakley
Ah, a good point you have… but you never know, maybe one day we *will* have Web 2.6 or 2.6.1… Not very forward thinking! (For the record, that would be ridiculous)

By: Scott Oakley

Scott Oakley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:14:34 +0000

I just say Web 2. I find the dot oh redundant. Will the web ever have incremental versions? Web 2.6? I doubt it.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:27:26 +0000

I say “two point oh”. As Sue said, it’s a number, and ‘point’ is normal for numbers. To be honest I like the sound of it better… “dot oh” sounds like “dull” to me.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:11:24 +0000

@snobiwan
Yea but remember when radio stations used to be “point” and now they are all “dot” I was totally against it, but now I’m with it.

@Sue Murphy
My viewpoint is software versions=boring stuff. URLs & internet=fun stuff and Web 2.0 fits with the latter, even if the term was borrowed from the first

By: snobiwan

snobiwan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:52:43 +0000

I say “point” simply because it’s a decimal point. If I listened to my Grade 5 teacher, I would be calling it Web Two Decimal Zero. After all this, I might just call it Web Two Interpunct Zero just to be different, and confuse typesetters.

By: Sue Murphy

Sue Murphy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:13:10 +0000

But the “.” in 2.0 is based on a reference to software versioning (e.g. Firefox 4.0 = four-point-oh.) Google.com is a URL (google-dot-com). One’s a decimal, the other’s a period.