Growth of the Internet

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users."

Lori Valigra
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During the 1990s, the number of users of the Internet grew by 100% per year as seen in the graph below...

Web 2.0 Internet

Web 2.0 is the second generation of the internet. This is were the web has been improved over time and can now offer better and more advanced services like blogs, wiki’s, social networking sites etc

Web 2.0 is still being developed. It allows internet users to contribute content and interact with other web users it a way that was not previously possible and has dramatically changed the internet in a very short time. Examples of Web 2.0 developed websites include YouTube and MySpace these sites rely on user submissions which are actively shared across the internet. The Web 2.0 evolved in response to the demand of internet users that they be more involved in what information is available to them.