Tim O'Reilly

from somebody else who had been doing the business longer than we had. So we said, oh, let's do a joint venture and launch a conference together. And Dale's the one who came up with calling it Web 2.0. If you read the What is Web 2.0 paper, it's basically this one table in the beginning, which was where Dale was saying, here was Web 1.0. You're going to be a portal. You're going to aggregate.

from somebody else who had been doing the business longer than we had. So we said, oh, let's do a joint venture and launch a conference together. And Dale's the one who came up with calling it Web 2.0. If you read the What is Web 2.0 paper, it's basically this one table in the beginning, which was where Dale was saying, here was Web 1.0. You're going to be a portal. You're going to aggregate.

Web 2.0 is syndication. It was a bunch of things that we did a set of comparisons. And then I kind of, brought in all of my ideas about the internet as operating system and fleshed that out to tell a story about what was really going on.

Web 2.0 is syndication. It was a bunch of things that we did a set of comparisons. And then I kind of, brought in all of my ideas about the internet as operating system and fleshed that out to tell a story about what was really going on.

We were in an expansive period and that was before, but it was again, a pattern recognition exercise. It was really triggered by the fact that I had become friends with a guy named Andrew Shulman. Again, you just hear these people just drop a piece on the table. And it was in the early days of a Microsoft technology called ActiveX.

We were in an expansive period and that was before, but it was again, a pattern recognition exercise. It was really triggered by the fact that I had become friends with a guy named Andrew Shulman. Again, you just hear these people just drop a piece on the table. And it was in the early days of a Microsoft technology called ActiveX.

And Andrew had written a book called Undocumented DOS and Unauthorized Windows 95. He was an author for a different publisher, but he eventually came to work for me because I decided to try to do some Windows-based books. And he told me about this national advertising campaign by Microsoft about ActiveX. We're activating the internet.

And Andrew had written a book called Undocumented DOS and Unauthorized Windows 95. He was an author for a different publisher, but he eventually came to work for me because I decided to try to do some Windows-based books. And he told me about this national advertising campaign by Microsoft about ActiveX. We're activating the internet.

And he said, actually, everything in that commercial, except the little animated taxicab that was going across the screen, was done with Perl. And I was outraged because Pearl, of course, was our best-selling book. And I kind of got outraged. And it was also right after Sun had introduced the Java 1 conference, this massive Java conference. And I go, wait, there's no conference for Pearl.

And he said, actually, everything in that commercial, except the little animated taxicab that was going across the screen, was done with Perl. And I was outraged because Pearl, of course, was our best-selling book. And I kind of got outraged. And it was also right after Sun had introduced the Java 1 conference, this massive Java conference. And I go, wait, there's no conference for Pearl.

So I decided to throw a party for them. And it was really kind of this idea of it would be, in some sense, a kind of subsidized marketing. I didn't really think of it as a business. It was really like, oh, Sun is marketing Java. We could do something for these people who've given so much to us.

So I decided to throw a party for them. And it was really kind of this idea of it would be, in some sense, a kind of subsidized marketing. I didn't really think of it as a business. It was really like, oh, Sun is marketing Java. We could do something for these people who've given so much to us.

And then I realized, oh, wait, all of our bestselling books are about, which is what led me up to the Open Source Summit the next year. And maybe it gave you another piece of how reading and literature and the kinds of things that shape your personal philosophy. There's two books I'm going to mention. One is a book from the 1930s called The Meaning of Culture by a guy named John Cooper Powers.

And then I realized, oh, wait, all of our bestselling books are about, which is what led me up to the Open Source Summit the next year. And maybe it gave you another piece of how reading and literature and the kinds of things that shape your personal philosophy. There's two books I'm going to mention. One is a book from the 1930s called The Meaning of Culture by a guy named John Cooper Powers.

He was a Welsh author and lecturer. And The meaning of culture is about the difference between what he calls culture and education. And he said, culture is the education that you put to use in your own life, your personal culture. That became a lens for me.

He was a Welsh author and lecturer. And The meaning of culture is about the difference between what he calls culture and education. And he said, culture is the education that you put to use in your own life, your personal culture. That became a lens for me.

And the other thing I was going to tell you about as a piece of personal culture is this fabulous scene in the Canadian television production of Anne of Green Gables, which I watched with my daughter when she was 10. and came to love those books. The story of Anne of Green Gables is an orphan who is adopted by this elderly brother and sister.

And the other thing I was going to tell you about as a piece of personal culture is this fabulous scene in the Canadian television production of Anne of Green Gables, which I watched with my daughter when she was 10. and came to love those books. The story of Anne of Green Gables is an orphan who is adopted by this elderly brother and sister.

The brother is sent to get this orphan, and he accidentally brings home a girl instead of a boy. And his sister says to him, a girl? What use could she be to us? Richard Farnsworth is the actor. And Richard Farnsworth sang in this slow, kind of thoughtful way. He said, well... I was thinking maybe we could be of some use to her. It's just such a beautiful line. And it went right in.

The brother is sent to get this orphan, and he accidentally brings home a girl instead of a boy. And his sister says to him, a girl? What use could she be to us? Richard Farnsworth is the actor. And Richard Farnsworth sang in this slow, kind of thoughtful way. He said, well... I was thinking maybe we could be of some use to her. It's just such a beautiful line. And it went right in.