A lexis-nexis search of major newspapers indicates that the term started appearing regularly in 2004 around the time of a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco in October. The wikipedia article on Web 2.0 credits O'Reilly Media with coining the term in 2004. Mark At 10:03 PM -0400 4/19/07, Peter Timusk wrote:
A search on Lexis might be more valuable in terms of legal scholarship.
In 19-Apr-07, at 5:40 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
One brute force approach which wouldn't take long is to a successive Google search on "1990" and "web 2.0"; "1991" and "web 2.0" etc.
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