There was no active communication or information flow from consumer (of the information) to producer (of the information). The best examples of this 1.0 web era are millions of static websites which mushroomed during the dot-com boom (which eventually has led to the dotcom bubble).
The average internet user’s role was limited to reading the information which was presented to him.
Web 1.0 – The shopping carts & static webĮxperts call the Internet before 1999 “Read-Only” web.