Web 2.0
Web 2.0 (pronounced /Web 2 Point Oh/) is what people call new ways of showing or using things on the Internet.
- Web 2.0 is simple: easy for anyone to publish their work on the Internet
- Web 2.0 is social: easy for people to connect with other people
- Web 2.0 is open: easy for websites and computer programs to exchange data with other sources
To people who use the Internet, wikis and blogs are Web 2.0. Some think that Wikipedia is a great example of "Web 2.0". Web 2.0 is mostly about user-generated and interactive content.
Before Web 2.0, internet users could just read information on the web page.With Web 2.0, users can interact with the site and It is mainly what you can call "two-way information" not like its predecessor, Web 1.0 where information was only written by the website author.
It adds great interactivity to the static,only informative,non-interactive websites of Web 1.0.
It fundamentally builds on the internet technologies which are in use since the inception of internet and WWW and gives a layer of abstraction on top to provide rich services.
Many famous websites, such as Facebook and Youtube are considered Web 2.0 Websites.
