If you had to put a year on it, when would you say the web became meaningfully "interactive"?
Meaning when did we go from static pages of longform text to dynamic components streaming live data and flying 3D interactive articles?
Articles / refs with historical detail welcome 🙏
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There’s a lot of interactivity in between those extremes, and I’d argue that the web was interactive very early on, and the pre-web internet (with Usenet, BBSs, etc.) were extremely interactive. Phpbb and vbulletin first came out in 2000, BBCode was 1998 and Blogger 1999.
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And like points out people were hacking together interactive components with Perl scripts a few years before those tools.
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Good point! Flawed question. The best kind for uncovering silent assumptions. "Meaningfully interactive" definitely a fuzzy term I'll need to break down into specific affordances/abilities. Clicking and typing are undeniably interactive.