And so it comes to pass, the 1,000,000′th word in the English dictionary is, Web 2.0, what a massive dissapointment. Having being online when Yahoo Geocities was the ideal place to pop-up a few webpages before the dot.com bubble burst, truth be told, it probably became more popular after the 2000 crash. Web 2.0 is a trendy word no-doubt, and seemingly it has caught the attention of those mothballed wordsmiths whom select which words are deemed fit to appear in proper english language.

Those that walk into boardrooms or try to impress their friends with throwing the phrase ‘web 2.0′ into the conversation ought to be tarred and then feathered in my book! Why? Cause their plonkers, that’s why. And so is that word, phrase, whatever you want to call it, it scores 10/10 for sheer Forest Gumpness, because you know what’s coming next dontcha … Web 3.0, Web 3.5, Web 4.125 … give me a frickin’ break.

Y’know what, those elbow patched know-it-alls, who brought Web 2.0 into the mainstream have opened up a wankword fest from those dribbly, advertising, marketing execs who staple a pair of braces to their trousers each morning and read newspapers bigger than their backbones. You know we are about to have the dribble-from-the-mouth brigade, salivating about where they can stick – the new – ‘Web 2.0′ word into their next Powerpoint presentation. While the remainder of us online nod in agreement as to where we’d like to shove it …