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Going beyond simple html, it could be construed as a replacement for television where anyone can be their own broadcaster. This is made possible by web sites for self-publishing and video presentations. It also allows collaborative efforts from anyone in the world who can log on. It is the logical extension of WWW as the computers and programs became more sophisticated and powerful.
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The term is mainly associated with Tim O’Reilly, who publishes the books (The Missing Manual Series) I use for my Technical Foundations class, it was actually coined by Darcy DiNucci in a speculative journalism piece about the future of computing in the twilight years of the 20th century.

//Web Browser:// programs that “talk” to other computers to exchange data. //xml// (extensible markup language): context sensitive search tool. //Social Networking:// applications that allow people to connect more easily than by telephone or mail, with a danger that it is replacing face to face contact. //Cloud computing:// using programs on remote computers with the web browser as the interface. But who knows who looks at what you are doing with this concept? //Wikis:// collaborative encyclopedias, which could be updated up to the nanosecond, with the altruistic notion of collaborative intelligence. //collaborative intelligence:// sometimes proving that a committee is stupider than the sum of its parts. //blogs:// short for Weblogs, an outlet for those with logorrhea, which is like diarrhea, except with words. //Podcasting:// a quick way of transferring audio data using the high rate of digital data transfer versus the lower frequencies of sound waves. //syndication (as in RSS feeds):// a method of alerting viewers when a change occurs at a site they are watching. //perpetual Beta:// the tag Beta was originally applied to test versions of software just prior to release to check if the bugs had been worked out, the term is applied to software like Google Maps as it is constantly evolving with no final version ever in sight. //time displacement:// has its roots in the origins of home videotape recorders, the rationale behind taping shows off the air to watch them at the viewer's convenience, now it can be applied to podcasting and video downloads.
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