What is Web 2.0?

The term Web 2.0 is an insulting buzz word that was created by all the people who have been asleep for the last 10 years then just woke up and realized the web could be interactive.

Web 2.0 is a term that tries to push the internet as some newly fangled way of making the user an active participant in a website.

The fact is, it has always been that way. Millions of people met in interactive chats, people were building complex home pages on AOL 10 years before myspace was even an idea. AOL had video upload groups and way way more than any single website tagging themselves as a 2.0 platform will ever reach. And AOL was fending off the competition daily.

It was the super duper interactive nature of sites like aol, ebay and others that made the web grow at the rate it did. The excitemet was not based on static pages, it was based on more dynamic content than is even available today.

It is insulting to imply that all the sites of the past did not match up to the programing of web 2.0. The fact is totally the opposite is true. The new web 2.0 sites are just a rehash of 10 year old concepts. Social networking is an old idea and the active social networks have colapsed. But they offered the sky compared to a myspace or facebook.

For young programers to paste a label on themselves and their projects to stand out from the people that built the backbone of the internet is foolish. The term is outlandish and stupid.

The term is thrown around by everyone out of the know to make it look like they do know. But we know they don't know!

If someone is yielding the "Web 2.0" buzz term, you can be pretty sure they are hyping something that falls way short in the way of technology.

Its a new word for an old idea. It's a word that is used to lable everything yet has no definitive definition.

The web 2.0 people need to wake up and realize they don't have anything new. And in fact, they have not even tapped the technology that has existed for more than 20 years.

Maybe webmaster 2.0 feels better about himself, but unless his webpage 2.0 makes more money for his clients, they wont be happy paying 2.0 times the regular cost for the same service.