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In four pages this paper examines the Internet phenomenon known as Web 2.0 in an overview that includes what it is and how it evolved. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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and bars. However, since the introduction of the Internet or World Wide Web information superhighway, local and international communications require only a computer and Internet access. Because of
instant information transfer, the world has become a much smaller place. Instead of picking up a telephone to reach out and touch someone, "Netizens" nearly have to log onto
the Internet to chat, share information, or upload and download files with others worldwide. Web 2.0 in concept was introduced into cyberspace jargon by information design consultant Darby DiNucci
when she coined the term in her 1999 Print article entitled "Fragmented Future." DiNucci (1999) observed, "The Web we know now, which loads into a window on our computer
screens in essentially static screenfuls, is an embryo of the Web as we will know it in not so many years. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are now
beginning to appear, and we can start to see just how that embryo might develop" (p. 32). Today, there is nothing embryonic about Web 2.0. It has become
a blank Internet canvas upon which contributing users can create and share virtually anything. In 2004, Tim OReilly, a publisher of developers handbooks, stated that the WWW had moved from
Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, but ever since there has been a struggle to define exactly what Web 2.0 really means (Langley, 2008). For some, it is nothing more
than "a bagful of old technologies under a new name," whereas for others it represents "a major trend that is building steadily" (Langley, 2008, p. 26). Web 2.0 refers
to a series of new Internet applications that encourage all users of the Internet to share information online, and even collaborate on projects together (Thompson, 2008). In the opinion
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