Web 2.0

noun

1. 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

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Web 2.0¹

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

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

And while the New York Times was certainly never assured of making it through the news revenue crisis that accompanied the rise of Web 2.0, its survival odds were greatly enhanced by its preeminent stature among American national newspapers, as well as its mission-driven leadership from the family that has controlled the Times for generations.

From Slate

This was during the glorious dawn of the Web 2.0 revolution—an era of unbridled Obama-era optimism—and as the media made its digitized transition, conventional wisdom said that reporters needed to develop their own bespoke personal brands.

From Slate

Because there’s a paradox that all of these so-called Web 2.0 companies, which rely on users to generate, share and even moderate content, have in common — and it’s leading, inexorably, to their downfall.

From Los Angeles Times

“The episode illustrates a basic tension at the heart of the Web 2.0 paradigm,” Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People, a tech worker and co-founder of Logic Magazine, tells me.

From Los Angeles Times