14/08/09 1:46

Twitter A short history of writing

by Josep M. Ganyet

Posted in Blogosphere, Internet, Twitter, Web 2.0 | No Comments » Tweet This Post

This post started as a late night tweet summarizing (in less than 140 characters) the story of writing hence the title of the post. Here’s the original tweet.

From 4,000 BC to 1992: Pre-web era. Writing

The representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols is known as a writing system. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form

From 1992 to 1997: Web 1.0. Online copywriting

Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion or idea. The term may be applied to any content regardless of media (print, radio, television, or online media).

From 1997 to 2004: Web 2.0. Blogging

A blog (a contraction of the term “weblog”) is a type of website with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

From 2004 to 2008: Social web. Posting

Like in Facebook when u post stuff 2 ur friend’s wall such as:

sup? will upload pics from last party… check’em l8er

From 2008 to present time: Live web. RT

RT @my_tweep EPIC WIN ->I haz my pics O_o <-LOL or WTF?! :D

(If you don’t understand this last chapter you can check what people are saying right now at twitter.com)

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