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> The term was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999[3] and later popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the first Web 2.0 Conference in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Reddit was launched in 2005 (which I admit is a year or two earlier than I remember/would have guessed).



I think 2004 is when the concept really gained currency.




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