Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static Web pages.

If that isn't as exciting a description as you had hoped you'd find, in the following posts I've sketched out a brief run-down of some of the most-basic concepts behind web 2.0, dynamic websites and how the worldwide web today is little like the hyperlinked billboards of the 1990s.

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