Counting the Web

The other day, I saw that Roi had posted an item about defining Web 3.0. As it turns out, I've been doing a lot of research lately on the Semantic Web (which is more or less the best candidate for the Web 3 label), and I began to sigh.

Yes folks, here we go again.

For the past two years or so I've had I don't know how many conversations along the lines of, "what is Web 2.0?" or, "there's no such thing as Web 2.0" or, "isn't Web 2.0 a big bubble?"

The thought of having to start all over again with Web 3 just fills me with dread. It also got me to thinking, why Web 3.0? What happened to Web 2.5? Or Web 1.5 for that matter?

I think you guys can see where this is going, but the next logical step was to get on the Google and see where you go when you start counting Web. And here's what I found:

• Web 1.0
• Web 1.1
• Web 1.5
• Web 1.9
• Web 2.0
• Web 2.1
• Web 2.2
• Web 2.5
• Web 2.9
• Web 3.0
• Web 3.5
• Web 4.0
• Web 5.0
• Web 6.0
• Web 7.0
• Web 8.0
• Web 9.0
• Web 10.0

Whew. Now that that's done, I think I'm going back to web 0.5 and be done with it.