Web 2.0

Finally, for the first time in my academic career at UMUC, I finally have found an explanation of Web 2.0 which makes sense. It is essentially, the technologies and different applications that survived after the dot.com burst in the early 2000's. Apparently Tim O'Reilly coined the term, and from there the term evolved. It is odd that the Web 2.0 is supposed to define the technologies that came around after the fall of the dot.com's; however, they were in existence then, just not used to their total benefit. These technologies, RSS, social networking, 'googling', etc., I think would not have come into existence without that fall. It was almost like natural selection. At that time, everyone was jumping on the bandwagon of anything that involved the internet and technology. However, this fall is what made everyone regroup and pay attention to what was really necessary and what was sellable. Although it is called Web 2.0, its almost as if the internet went through its own evolution and still has not finished working out its kinks so that it could survive. I think that Web 2.0 is just a start and given more time (hopefully no more falls), then we will see what what the internet is really made of.