2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

Last.fm circa 2003; via Last.fm Flickr account . What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until around 2004 . But the first inklings of it were emerging a couple of years before. As usual, music was the harbinger. Last.fm was founded in 2002 by a group of four Austrian and German students from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London. It was fashioned as…