Thing 20 – Read about Web 2.0

Web 2.0 in my understanding is what the web has morphed into over the years it has been in use by the general public. Static pages have turned to dynamic pages drawn on the fly, the main languages changed from html to html and JavaScript up to now when you can be looking at any number of server side php, ASP type languages running above a mysql, oracle database.  Web 2.0 to me means the sites became more end user friendly, more blog and video sharing sites came about as people that had never really taken an interest in the internet started trying there hand.  Over all if the first inventors of web 2.0 wanted to bring the internet to the masses i think they achieved that, I think some of the sites are a great demonstration of computing power but not a great social tool when a lot of the time is spent at home on the computer.  Web 2.0 is blogs, RSS, lots of server side code and logic and generally a more entertaining feel for the internet in my opinion.