
Satire on the "Web 2.0" aesthetic trend (2006)
Link to Flickr post I got the image from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gtmcknight/198311028/
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Seems like a collection of various corporate logos redesigns, poking fun at the then-popular aesthetic of Web 2.0 websites, preeeeetty cool! From what I can gather, these were originally from yayhooray.com?
Web 2.0 basically described websites that support user-generated content and social interactivity, such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Newgrounds, etc. It became a popular term in the mid-2000s, around the time this aesthetic became dominant online.
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Lol found this 2006 blog post discussing the redesigns; fun to see what ppl thought of this aesthetic back then: https://spiekermann.com/en/new-logos-for-web-20/
This is quite the time capsule!