• a different/new/evolved internet ? •
We use the term Web 2.0 to refer to the technologies and use of the World Wide Web that didn’t exist in the beginning. The term first appears in 2003, and imposes itself since 2007.
To clearly understand what the Web 2.0 is, we need to compare it to what is now called the Web 1.0. At the origin, Internet was made of statics pages, rarely or never updated. It was only a tool to spread and read information.
But with the Web 2.0, the potential of creation, storage and spreading is amazingly bigger than before. However, what is really different between the 1.0 and the 2.0 is the place they offer to the user. The net surfer and its relations with the other are now in the center of this “new web”. It gives to users without any technical knowledge the means to interact with the content, the appearance of the web, and with each other, creating some kind of social networks. Nowadays, the net surfer is an actor of the web. By writing this post, I am changing the web, by leaving a comment you will do the same.
By acting local, we are changing the global, worldwide web. Everybody on earth can have an access to my local situation. This is another important characteristic of the 2.0, it mixes the local with the global.
Without this evolution, the “social” web, every kind of online social networks wouldn’t be possible.
