2000s

From IndieWeb

Following the 1990s and preceding the 2010s.

The 2000s was a decade that began with the dotcom bust and saw the rapid growth of blogs, blog search engines like Technorati, standards-based web development, the invention (like Atom) and maturation (like RSS 2.0) of modern feed file formats, the inventions of Pingback, microformats, and the emergence of social media silos, and in the latter half web-capable smartphones, all accompanied with a shift to silver or shiny aesthetic.

IndieWeb Examples

Folks that started the sites or blogs in the 2000s. Sort by start date, ascending.

Silo Examples

Popular silos that started in the 2000s

Technologies

Main article: timeline#2000

Some of the key IndieWeb-related technologies that emerged in the 2000s:

Software

Software created in the 2000s directly relevant to the IndieWeb:

Defunct/abandoned:

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Events and Movements

2000s events, movements, conferences, conflicts relevant to the origins of the IndieWeb:

Conferences:

Community events:

Conflicts:

Aesthetics

Drastically shifting from the 1990s brightly colored translucent aesthetic, the late 1990s into the early 2000s saw the rise of shiny silver or chrome colored devices and products, subsequently dubbed "chromecore". Much of this shift from colorful to uniform was reflected in the designs of websites as well.

Website design / forum example:

screenshot of a silver and gray colored website

Broader Aesthetics:

The time around 2000 (Y2K) saw quite a shift in aesthetics: graphic flow chart of various products from a few years before and after the year 2000

Devices:

Sony Ericsson phone front and back shown slid-open.


See Also

IndieWeb over the decades
Decades 1970s β€’ 1980s β€’ 1990s β€’ 2000s β€’ 2010s β€’ 2020s β€’ IndieWebCamps over the years
  • 2000s web site layouts largely transitioned from HTML Tables to CSS, led by independent and personal websites of web designers in the very early 2000s, who also published their techniques on their blogs, using their own websites as live examples.