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Web 2.0 is an expression invented by Tim O’Reilly in 2004 to describe the way the web has evolved since its beginnings. Web 1.0 was intended to give access to databases, and contained static web pages that were rarely updated. Since then, as the technology has evolved and become more dynamic, it has become easier to update web pages and websites.
Web 2.0
Updated : Tuesday 2 February 2010
- New enriched digital surfaces (Ajax, Flash 8, Ruby on Rails…) were introduced to make navigation easier and more ergonomic, thus making the web more accessible for everyone. But Web 2.0 represents a great leap forward, not just technologically, but socially and in terms of communication. Web 2.0 is meant to permit and facilitate web-based communication, the sharing and exchange of data, news and opinions via blogs, RSS feeds, forums, Wiki and so on. Going forward, the web is there not for the benefit of engineers and technology, but of internet users themselves.
- By extension, Web 2.0 has been used to describe any event or initiative that is resolutely modern. As in, “this magazine or this new phone service is very Web 2.0”. By contrast, if someone tells you that your catalogue prototype “is so Web 1.0”, it means it ‘s practically obsolete. But if you really want the most cutting-edge language, forget Web 2.0 and move on to Web 3.0.
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