The insult of "Web 2.0" is that the tech-illiterate hooligans whose primary use for the internet is hotmail and spending money on stupid products (whether cosmetics, gadgets, clothes - largely made by slaves in the third world), whether via mainstream shops or amazon or ebay, seem to have created a mythical idea of the internet having evolved, an idea which gravitates toward mindless and worthless sites like facebook, myspace, wikipedias and blogs.

Instead of trying to take a few steps closer to understanding things like how Google works, no how it actually works (it's easy to understand and they've had a document about it available to the public for almost a decade - one document, which these idiots can't read, just ONE document) or what Amazon was supposed to be and where it ended up, or how come Yahoo is the world's top website (not google, not aol, not msn, not anyone else, but yahoo), or what is the difference (and this is really easy, really vital and really UNKNOWN) between ftp and http! Instead of trying to take a few steps closer or even just one, toward understanding more about the internet and being a real part of its growth, both in useful usage and useful development, they actually believe that the evolved state of the web orbits a world of people's list of favourite pointless tv programmes, stupid pictures of cats, absurd collections of trivial, often meaningless information and the oodles of advertising space that a bunch of mercenary idiots attach to that information during transit.

The fact that you can search and use google and leave your whole 'history' in a recorded area you can revisit any time, so that your google search has now stepped out of your machine and has continuity whether at work, play, a friend's house, on your mum's machine, on your dad's mobile, in france, in texas, in the bath - is the kind of gigantic leap forwards which the bulk of society won't cotton onto for quite a while. The many commercial and non-commercial advances any individual or group can make with this technology and the many others constantly moving forwards are overlooked by this world of nice-box and glossy-picture-page worshippers.

It saddens me that it is not common knowledge that commandlines, whether on macintoshes or linux servers, can compile things like java in a whizz, if the person typing on the commandline knows merely a few things (not many). It's sad that so few people know how much potential there is for a person or group to develop massively, in terms of information and communication, via easy free tools that are the REAL thing called 'the internet' - and I think people should be told - facebook, myspace etc - this is the kiddy-internet. Grownups know what ftp is, at the very least.

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