Interaction and sharing: these have become the web’s keywords.
A totally new way to conceive Internet where the center of the world is ‘you’. User? Surfer? Consumer? Not anymore, or at least, not only. Surfing the net is no longer limited to benefiting from “institutional” contents, chatting and checking your email; today internet denotes social network, blog, wiki, vod and podcasting. This allows anyone who can operate a mouse, to publish his/her contents, comment on someone else’s, be responsible for their circulation, start social relations based on common interests, exchange ideas, knowledge, audio and video files.

The Web has been headed in the last few years, in a very precise direction: web 2.0

Before stepping forward toward an international social network, Qbr looks back for a moment and publishes a research paper on online communication evolution. From internet creation to the chat line, from dating to social networking, the history of a life that evolves through the wires and materializes on computer screens, with the end result of actually connecting real people. In school they teach us the importance of history, because the knowledge of the past helps us to interpret the present and points us in the right direction towards the future: actually this thought popped into our minds when we decided to embark on an investigation of the origins of web socialization.

So,