Web 2.0 is Broken and Here’s Why. People who study the Internet for a living have expended a good deal of effort arguing about its impact on the democratic process. Ever since Web 1.0 came along and changed the world, a popular line of argument has gone roughly like this: ? Cyberspace allows people who possess relatively little power in the so-called real world to have their political voices heard in a more egalitarian manner on the Internet.? While the social promises made by a lot of Web 1.0 designers, promoters, and users never fully materialized, I submit to you here that there was actually a lot more democracy to be found in the first web then there is now. G A P M I N D E R: HOME.