I Googled for the lyrics to “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and up came [this ancient HTML document from the days of Web 2.0](https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/meanGrinch.html).
I’ve noticed that Google will often point me to these very old, rudimentary webpages that are 20 years old or so, and often hosted at American universities like MIT.
So my question is, why do these websites exist in the first place, and why do they still exist?
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MIT was a major node on the internet since long before there was an internet. MIT was one of the original nodes on Arpanet, which became the Internet. In fact, I still have a friend’s card from the early 80s when he was an undergrad at MIT and he had an email address long before most of the world had ever heard of email. His address was an Arpanet address.
As far as Web 2.0, that began in the early aughts as a term used to distinguish the web as it was transformed ( for the worse IMHO) by the advent of social media. It’s not an official designation, and most people would say we’re still in the Web 2.0 era. One would have to be mighty young to consider anything Web 2.0 as being “ancient”.
For the record, as I mentioned, MIT’s presence on the net predates even Web 1.0.
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