Walled Garden
A walled garden is a technology system that does not allow easy ingress or egress of users or information
First Published: 2025-02-05| Last Updated:
Status: in progress| Audience: digital gardeners| Confidence: aficionado
Walled Gardens are a standard feature of a lot of the web 2.0 experience. Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta all strive to build the largest walled gardens they can, hoping for the kind of walled garden that AOL enjoyed back in the late 90’s and early 00’s.
Personally, I would call them a defining feature of Web 2.0. Along with the rise of the CMS A Content Management System stores content in predefined database fields and generates pages when they are requested by a site visitor. -driven blogosphere and the concept of search as an interface, walled gardens, otherwise known as content silos, make up the vast majority of most people’s experience of the internet.