#4 Web 2.0

I must admit I was one of those people who thought the Internet was getting an upgrade.  We were going from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0!  It seemed an exciting prospect, a whole new Internet world, but what a task!  Considering the number of years I had heard the term Web 2.0 it certainly took some time to upgrade all the computers on the Internet, I really don't know why people thought the Y2K was difficult!

I am so glad I read the article by O'reilly on "What is Web 2.0".  While it did make me feel old, considering I have used Netscape and just about every other program mentioned in the article, it gave me some perspective as to what Web 2.0 is.  I can see that Web 2.0 is more of a shift in the way the Internet is used and in the way web tools are developed.  It is more about users creating and modifying the data present in databases rather than about Internet companies just delivering their own content through the Web (what happened with Web 1.0).  I like the comparison of  Britannica Online vs Wikipedia.