Web 2.0

American

noun

a second generation in the development of the World Wide Web, conceived as a combination of concepts, trends, and technologies that focus on user collaboration, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking.

Web 2.0 British

noun

the internet viewed as a medium in which interactive experience, in the form of blogs, wikis, forums, etc, plays a more important role than simply accessing information

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Etymology

Origin of Web 2.0

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

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The corporatization of Vimeo was also off-putting because Vimeo’s whole image, from jump, was to be something different from the other video platforms popping up in the transition to Web 2.0.

From Slate

The network infrastructure that was built during the dot-com boom became the backbone of Web 2.0.

From Barron's

At the tail-end of the technooptimist spike brought by President Barack Obama, this was the last gasp of Web 2.0.

From Salon

Lina Khan believes A.I. disruption demands that regulators take a different approach from that of the Web 2.0 era.

From New York Times

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