Deserts teach people patience. In the digital desert of Web1, people quietly read pages and closed them, drifting alone as they wandered from link to link. This solitude sparked a new question: What about us? What can we do together? The early 2000s marked a turning point, the beginning of the internet’s second spring. Technology had advanced, connections were faster and the first wave of users wanted more. They no longer wanted to just read in a browser; they wanted to talk, argue and create...

Deserts teach people patience. In the digital desert of Web1, people quietly read pages and closed them, drifting alone as they wandered from link to link. This solitude sparked a new question: What about us? What can we do together? The early 2000s marked a turning point, the beginning of the internet’s second spring. Technology had advanced, connections were faster and the first wave of users wanted more. They no longer wanted to just read in a browser; they wanted to talk, argue and create...

Today, we stand on a massive digital stage where trillions of bits move every second and wallets, profiles and algorithms compete fiercely. Just thirty years ago, this entire scene was wrapped in complete silence. Looking back, the early years of Web1 feel like a barren desert. Pages were static, each site looked like a picture frozen in time. There was no interaction, users were just a reader. But even that was a big revolution. Encyclopedias, newspaper archives, library catalogs - for the fir

Today, we stand on a massive digital stage where trillions of bits move every second and wallets, profiles and algorithms compete fiercely. Just thirty years ago, this entire scene was wrapped in complete silence. Looking back, the early years of Web1 feel like a barren desert. Pages were static, each site looked like a picture frozen in time. There was no interaction, users were just a reader. But even that was a big revolution. Encyclopedias, newspaper archives, library catalogs - for the fir