The document traces the evolution of key technologies and platforms in the development of weblogging and Web 2.0. It notes that the term "weblogging" was coined in 1997 and that platforms like Blogger soon made it easy to create blogs. Wikipedia's addition of collaborative features and the rise of sites like Myspace, Flickr, and Facebook enabled new forms of user-generated content and social networking. Other milestones included the launch of Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and Twitter, as well as the growth of user-driven sites like Digg that harnessed the "wisdom of crowds."

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

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

4. 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.”

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

6. Flickr launches enabling users to easily upload and share their photos

7. Mark Zuckerberg founded the social networking website Facebook

8. Google presents Gmail  This Webmail service uses Ajax technology to provide all the capabilities of desktop e-mail software

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

10. O’Reilly and Associates sponsored the first Web 2.0 conference  Web 2.0 conferences are since held annually

11. Digg is introduced  It uses the “wisdom of crowds” feature to locate interesting articles and present them in order of importance

12. Wikipedia’s page on web 2.0 goes live.  It is very basic at first

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

14. Google produces Google maps  This feature is an example of rich user interface

15. 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

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