Which term best captures the era that expanded social media and user-generated content?

• A. Web 1.0
• B. Web 3.0
• C. Web 2.0
• D. Web 0.5

Answer: (C)

Web 2.0 is the term that best captures the era where social media and user-generated content became central to the web. This shift moves away from static, read-only pages and toward dynamic, interactive platforms where people create, share, and collaborate online. Blogs, video and photo sharing, wikis, forums, and social networks show how participation and user input redefine what the web is for. Technologies and design ideas behind this era—like richer browser experiences, APIs that let sites talk to each other, and emphasis on community-generated content—fuel the sense of a participatory web. By contrast, Web 1.0 describes the earlier, largely static landscape, Web 3.0 points to the semantic or AI-enabled web, and Web 0.5 isn’t a standard term in this context.