During the late 90's and early 2000, internet was still a bit of fresh air to us, Filipinos. Computers are mainly for rich folks who by that time were either mastering MS Paint or slammed down in their room playing solitaire. Internet and Gaming Cafes were can easily counted by fingers and they often come with a frustratingly high rental fee but computers were never that significant at the first place, it was a budding technology but not yet utilized due to hardware costs and lousy, slow-as-snail internet connection. The Internet, no matter how attractive it is, doesn't really exist yet, as in, no one bothered.

But with ISPs starting to offer households with decent connection and the huge price drop of Computers paves the way for Filipinos to finally embrace the said technology. With the sudden popularity of Online games and Instant messaging, Computers and Computer-associated task become in-demand, even the simplest of all people who haven't touched a mouse and a keyboard was sold, thanks to the Internet. But what exactly trigger the internet phenomena to the masses? The Answer, the Web 2.0, How? Read below.

First, What is Web 2.0? According to Wikipedia.org (which is a web 2.0 site itself) - Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of WWW from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Keyword: transition. Again, before anything else, what is pre-Web 2.0 looked like? Not much, Just static websites with every bit of information about it, informational but often-boring, less-interactive and even sometimes too geeky for an average user to handle. Good thing that era is over and the transition to the next stage had justifiably brought life to the internet. Since you now have basic knowledge about the Web 2.0, lets head back to the question on how the web 2.0 sold the internet to us, Filipinos. Simple, it is fun.