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1Web 2.0 refers to the proliferation, starting in the late 90s/early 2000s, of more interactive, technologically advanced websites, as opposed to the static text pages (with an occasional image) that had previously dominated the net. In a technical sense it means that MediaNotes/JavaScript support in mainstream browsers has finally gotten good enough for companies like Website/{{Google}} to build services such as Gmail, [=GoogleDocs=] and other Javascript applications, and that XML has finally moved out of the lab and into real applications like RSS.
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3!!Example technologies sometimes referred to as Web 2.0:
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5* Collaborative, user-edited websites (like Website/{{Wikipedia}}, which began in 2001, based on the wiki technology which began in [[Website/PortlandPatternRepository 1994]]),
6* {{Blog|Tropes}}s and other online communication tools (like Platform/LiveJournal, which began in 1999),
7* Style sheets, separating content from format (CSS, 1998),
8* Syndication systems (RSS, late 90s)

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