1.17. Web 2.0

The web literally exploded in the mid-to-late 1990s, but hard times hit in the early 2000s due to the dot com economic bust. The resurgence that began in 2004 or so, has been named Web 2.0. The first Web 2.0 Conference was held in 2004. A year into its life, the term “Web 2.0” garnered about 10 million hits on the Google search engine, growing to 60 million a year later. Google is widely regarded as the signature company of Web 2.0. Some others are Craigslist (free classified listings), Flickr (photo sharing), del.icio.us (social bookmarking), You Tube (video sharing), MySpace and Face Book (social networking), Salesforce (business software offered as an online service), Second Life (a virtual world), Skype (Internet telephony) ...

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