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: Freedom to DifferFTW! ... the origins of some Web 2.0 terms
ReadWriteWeb charts the origins of five popular Web 2.0 terms:
Web 2.0 is pretty cool - so cool in fact that it's got its own buzzwords and lingo that not everybody knows. Everybody has a lot to gain from participation in this new cultural phenomenon, though, so there's no reason why everyone shouldn't know the background on the lingo. We did a little research just to cover our own bases! We thought we'd share it with you.
Think you know where catchwords like FTW and Fail! came from? Think you know who came up with the phrase Web 2.0? Do you know what the first Rickrolled link claimed to be? We did some hunting around to find out - below are our best ideas for the history of these and other popular terms around the web these days.
My favourite explanation is for FTW:
FTW is most commonly understood as standing for "For the Win!" The Urban Dictionary says it entered popular culture via the TV show Hollywood Squares. The show featured two contestants playing a trivia based tic-tac-toe game where the squares had celebrities siting in them who "helped" answer the questions.
The final question to complete the tic-tac-toe was asked "for the win..." The show ran from 1966 through 1981 but there were several attempts to revive it.
Hollywood Squares? Who'd have thunk it? Read about the other four - Fail, Rickroll, Eating Our Own Dogfood and Web 2.0 - here.
Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 09, 2009 (boomark / email).
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