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?
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I think around 1995-96 with cgi-perl scripts for comments sections in ezines for basic "interactivity" but for all the visual jazz, I'd say it became available with javascript coming of age around 2007 though it took designers 4-5 years to master the idiom
did a thread touching on this recently
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The boundary between Web1 and Web2 was so subtle and incremental most people outside of tech didn’t even notice when it was crossed: when IE7 supported XmlHttpRequest in 2008, paving the way for rich UIs, JavaScript supremacy starting with jQuery, and what was then called Ajax.
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