what is apache2 ?

I was recently allocated a virtuoal server with apache installed. I tried to inspect the installation of apache and see if some back-end processes are running, apache2 come into my eyes. 

Since I know what apache is, what is this apache2 is???

According to this article, apache2 turns out to be the second generation of apache http server...

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