Software Versioning - Use in Other Media

Use in Other Media

Software-style version numbers can be found in other media. In some cases, the use is a direct analogy (for example, Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, where the rules were revised from the third edition, but not so much as to be considered the fourth), but more often it's used to play on an association with high technology and doesn't literally indicate a 'version' (e.g., Tron 2.0, a video game followup to the film Tron, or the television series The IT Crowd, which refers to the second season as Version 2.0). A particularly notable usage is Web 2.0, referring to the World Wide Web as used in collaborative projects such as wikis and social networking websites.

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