Web 1.0: The Internet before 1999, experts call it Read-Only era. The average internet user's role was limited only to reading the information presented to him. The best examples are millions of static websites which mushroomed during the.com boom. There was no active communication or information flow from consumer of the information to producer of the information.
...After 1999 Web 2.0: The lack of active interaction of common user with the web lead to the birth of Web 2.0. The year 1999 marked the beginning of a Read-Write-Publish era with notable contributions from LiveJournal (Launched in April, 1999) and Blogger (Launched in August, 1999). Now even a non-technical user can actively interact & contribute to the web using different blog platforms. This era empowered the common user with a few new concepts viz. Blog, Social-Media & Video-Streaming. Publishing your content is only a few clicks away! Few remarkable developments of Web 2.0 are Twitter, YouTube, eZineArticles, Flickr and Facebook.
From the above statistics, we can conclude that Web 2.0 is so broadly used in almost every corner of the world.
Before 1999...
Web 1.0: The Internet before 1999, experts call it Read-Only era. The average internet user's role was limited only to reading the information presented to him. The best examples are millions of static websites which mushroomed during the.com boom. There was no active communication or information flow from consumer of the information to producer of the information.
...After 1999
Web 2.0: The lack of active interaction of common user with the web lead to the birth of Web 2.0. The year 1999 marked the beginning of a Read-Write-Publish era with notable contributions from LiveJournal (Launched in April, 1999) and Blogger (Launched in August, 1999). Now even a non-technical user can actively interact & contribute to the web using different blog platforms. This era empowered the common user with a few new concepts viz. Blog, Social-Media & Video-Streaming. Publishing your content is only a few clicks away! Few remarkable developments of Web 2.0 are Twitter, YouTube, eZineArticles, Flickr and Facebook.
From the above statistics, we can conclude that Web 2.0 is so broadly used in almost every corner of the world.
References:
http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-social-media/
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/moving-toward-web-20-in-k-12-education/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/becta_web_2_0_school_kids/
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101102103713/http://schools.becta.org.uk//index.php?section=tl&catcode=ss_tl_dig_02&rid=15903