""Web 2.0 is about the people, when it comes down to it."
That's what Richard Macmanus thinks. Others think along the same lines as him, but then again, some others have completely different ideas. For example, one of the definitions that Macmanus has written down on his blog states that web 2.0 is:
"the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control".
That's a lot of big words for something that is supposed to simplify the web, which is what Web 2.0 is for. The idea behind it was to create a new platform where people could share data in more easily as well as find it. With it came the use of "one-button publishing", something that I am using as I type this post. With a single press of a button, this article will be published into my blog; something that could not have been done before. The reason it could not have been accomplished before was because, with the birth of web 2.0, came the birth of XML text. This replaced the older HTML, otherwise known as "computer language" to some. With HTML, everything that can be done today, could still be done, but it was a lot more complicated. For example, to write this, all I had to do was press ctrl + b, but with HTML, I would have had to type in <> and < / b > at the beginning and end of my sentence respectively.
Basically, Web 2.0 has evolved from Web 1.0, in an attempt to make everything on the platform of the World Wide Web easier to use.
So, when you think about it, Web 2.0 really is about the people, making it easier for us to communicate, to share ideas and to find information; keeping us more connected in a sense. Even making the gap across oceans and continents that little bit smaller, and easier to cross."
-Will