Over many years, there has been some debate to whether even Web 2.0 actually exists. This is mainly due to the fact that there is no coherent answer for the definiton of Web 2.0. Other ideas include that the Web was always meant to be not just connecting computers, but connecting people - and that the improvement of technology together with a marketing ploy used by social networking sites concieved the term as a marketing term.
"Skeptics argue that the term is essentially meaningless, or that it means whatever its proponents decide that they want it to mean in order to convince the media and investors that they are creating something fundamentally new, rather than continuing to develop and use well-established technologies."
There has also been a debate that many sites can't be catergorized as 'Web 2.0' due to the fact that they are wholey different and share little similarities with one another.
Here is a link to an article were Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee talks about his views on the existance of Web 2.0:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2006/09/7650/
Other useful links:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/web-2-0-it-doesnt-exist/805
http://www.syntagmamedia.com/2005/10/23/does-web-20-exist/
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