The term “Webloging” is first used by Jorn Bargerto to describe what he and other InternetPioneers were doing on their sites

Blogger is introduced, providing an easy-to-use tool allowing users to readily create and update Weblogs

Wikipedia adds new feature “Wisdom of Crowds.” This feature is an underlying principal to Web 2.0. As stated by James Surowiecki, a columnist for the magazine The New Yorker, “This principal says that large groups of people collaborating together on a problem can find the right answer better than individual experts working alone or in small groups.”

Myspace is introduced allowing people to build a network of friends and post profiles, blogs, pictures, videos and music

Flickr launches enabling users to easily upload and share their photos

Mark Zuckerberg founded the social networking website Facebook

Google presents Gmail• This Webmail service uses Ajax technology to provide all

the capabilities of desktop e-mail software

The 3 millionth weblog is created.-remember that in 1999 there were only 23

weblogs existing

O’Reilly and Associates sponsored the first Web 2.0 conference

Web 2.0 conferences are since held annually

Digg is introducedIt uses the “wisdom of crowds” feature to

locate interesting articles and present them in order of importance

Wikipedia’s page on web 2.0 goes live.

It is very basic at first

Youtube is created alowing users to upload, view and share their own video clips.

Google produces Google mapsThis feature is an example of rich user

interface

The backrub search engine, which later became Google, was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

This search engine determines which webpage is best for any given subject by analyzing which pages has the most links from other pages on that same subject

The social networking and micro-blogging service “Twitter” was launched