Tim O'Reilly

So I went, oh, this is really about recentering on the internet. It was really about internet-enabled software development was really at the heart of this. And it was also about something that I called the architecture of participation. It was something about the design of Unix itself that made open source possible.

So I went, oh, this is really about recentering on the internet. It was really about internet-enabled software development was really at the heart of this. And it was also about something that I called the architecture of participation. It was something about the design of Unix itself that made open source possible.

and so it was even going back to my first experience with the documentation problem you actually had to give source code there was a big freeware community on say back when i first got my first computer which was a personal computer which was an osborne there was this the bog live osborne user group library you know where you got all this fabulous free software it was all binary but unix it was all source code because the underlying architectures

and so it was even going back to my first experience with the documentation problem you actually had to give source code there was a big freeware community on say back when i first got my first computer which was a personal computer which was an osborne there was this the bog live osborne user group library you know where you got all this fabulous free software it was all binary but unix it was all source code because the underlying architectures

was like you might be running on a digital machine. You might be running it on a data general machine. You might be running on a prime machine. You might be running it on a Burroughs B20. So you had to have source code. And so the source code culture grew up around Unix.

was like you might be running on a digital machine. You might be running it on a data general machine. You might be running on a prime machine. You might be running it on a Burroughs B20. So you had to have source code. And so the source code culture grew up around Unix.

Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so the point was I kept thinking about all this and it kept taking me further and further down the path into thinking about networks as the center. And so then after the dot-com bust, I started noticing, I ran a conference in 2001 where called building the internet operating system, which is again, a kind of pattern recognition.

Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so the point was I kept thinking about all this and it kept taking me further and further down the path into thinking about networks as the center. And so then after the dot-com bust, I started noticing, I ran a conference in 2001 where called building the internet operating system, which is again, a kind of pattern recognition.

I said, increasingly the internet is becoming the platform.

I said, increasingly the internet is becoming the platform.

I think of it more in this image of one image I've used in trying to explain it to people. It's like you're doing a jigsaw puzzle, which is a pattern recognition exercise again. but all the pieces aren't on the table. And then somebody dumps another 100 pieces on the table, and you sort them through, and then suddenly you can see a piece of the pattern you couldn't see before.

I think of it more in this image of one image I've used in trying to explain it to people. It's like you're doing a jigsaw puzzle, which is a pattern recognition exercise again. but all the pieces aren't on the table. And then somebody dumps another 100 pieces on the table, and you sort them through, and then suddenly you can see a piece of the pattern you couldn't see before.

In the case of Web 2.0, I had been going down this path of trying to talk about the internet as the platform. And then Dale was the one who came up with this notion of Web 2.0. I had run this series of conferences. I had started with really this notion that in my building the internet operating system, there were three things that had landed on me at the same time. And one was,

In the case of Web 2.0, I had been going down this path of trying to talk about the internet as the platform. And then Dale was the one who came up with this notion of Web 2.0. I had run this series of conferences. I had started with really this notion that in my building the internet operating system, there were three things that had landed on me at the same time. And one was,

distributed computation, which was through applications like SETI at home. You may remember that, whereas people were using, they would basically put a piece of software on your PC, so you'd have distributed computation running across thousands or tens of thousands of PCs.

distributed computation, which was through applications like SETI at home. You may remember that, whereas people were using, they would basically put a piece of software on your PC, so you'd have distributed computation running across thousands or tens of thousands of PCs.

It was the era of Napster, where basically, instead of having all the songs in one place, everybody would be serving them up to each other. So that was the whole peer-to-peer movement. And then there was the very beginnings of web services. Basically, these were all the same thing.

It was the era of Napster, where basically, instead of having all the songs in one place, everybody would be serving them up to each other. So that was the whole peer-to-peer movement. And then there was the very beginnings of web services. Basically, these were all the same thing.

They were all people who were starting to see the internet itself as the platform and it break out of the paradigm that software just lived on a device. And then the piece that clicked it into Web 2.0 was Dale had tried to put together a conference with another company that used to run Comdex and they wanted to do something with us and we wanted to learn

They were all people who were starting to see the internet itself as the platform and it break out of the paradigm that software just lived on a device. And then the piece that clicked it into Web 2.0 was Dale had tried to put together a conference with another company that used to run Comdex and they wanted to do something with us and we wanted to learn