
History of World Wide Web
Web Evolution - What and How?
Web evolution is categorized and hyped with some fancy marketing terms like "Web 1.0", "Web 2.0", "Social Web", "Web 3.0", "Pragmatic Semantic Web", "Pragmatic Web" and many more.
Analogically, web has its generations, such as Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and so on."
User interaction and social touch is applied to the web design.
Web 1. 0 (Read Only Web)
World Wide Web is evolved in stages. First stage was the basic "Read Only" hypertext system also termed as Web 1.0 since the hype of Web 2.0.
Some of the Characteristics of Web 1.0
In Web 1.0 web master is constantly engaged with responsibility of managing the content and keeps user updating. Web 1.0 does not support mass-publishing. Web 1.0 pages do not support machine readable content. Only human who are web readers can understand the content.
In Web 1.0, web pages are designed to react instinctively based on the programmed condition. To clearly understand above characteristics of web 1.0, Yihong Ding in his article on "Evolution of World Wide Web" has analogically correlated World of Web 1.0 with the world of a Newborn baby.
Web-1.0 Page : Webmasters
Web-1.0 Page : Humans understand, machines don't
Web-1.0 Page : Contact information (email, phone number, fax, address, ...)
Web-1.0 Page : Manually specified web links
Web-1.0 Page : Reactive functions on web pages
Web 2. 0 (Read Write Web)
In Web 2.0 the idea of Consumer (Users) and Producer (Web Master) is dissolving. Web 2.o is more about communications and user interactions. Web 2.0 is all about participation. In contrast with web 1.0, web 2.0 has collective intelligence of millions of users.
Some of the Characteristics of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is the Social web. In Web 2.0 philosophy and strategy is that "The Web is open". Web site content is not controlled by the people who made the web site but by the user who are using the web site.
In Web 2.0 Data is the driving force. Web 2.0 requires some of the key technologies to be used in the development of web pages.
To clearly understand above characteristics of web 2.0, Yihong Ding in his article on "Evolution of World Wide Web" has analogically correlated World of Web 2.0 with the world of a Pre-School Kid.
Web-2.0 Page : Webmasters (blog owners)
Web-2.0 Page : Tagging
Web-2.0 Page : Folksonomy
Web-2.0 Page : Blogging technology
Web-2.0 Page : Social network
Web-2.0 Page : Web widget, mashup
Web-2.0 Page : Collective intelligence
Following table distinguish the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
Web 1.0 is about : Reading
Web 2.0 is about : Reading /Writing
Web 1.0 is about : Publishing
Web 2.0 is about : Feedbacks, Reviews, Personalization
Web 1.0 is about : Linking Content using Hyperlinks
Web 2.0 is about : mashup
Web 1.0 is about : Companies
Web 2.0 is about : CommunityCommunity
Web 1.0 is about : Client-Server
Web 2.0 is about : Peer to Peer
Web 1.0 is about : HTML
Web 2.0 is about : XML
Web 1.0 is about : Home Pages
Web 2.0 is about : Blogs and Wikis
Web 1.0 is about : Portals
Web 2.0 is about : RSS
Web 1.0 is about : Taxonomy
Web 2.0 is about : Tags
Web 1.0 is about : Owning
Web 2.0 is about : Sharing
Web 1.0 is about : Web form
Web 2.0 is about : Web Application
Web 1.0 is about : Hardware Cost
Web 2.0 is about : Bandwidth Cost
Web 3. 0 (Semantic Web)
Web 3.0 or Semantic Web is an Executable Phase of Web Development where dynamic applications provides interactive services and facilitates machine to machine interaction.
"People keep asking what Web 3.0 is.
Precisely Web 3.0 = Every human + Every device + Every Information
Characteristics of Semantic Web
Semantic Web requires using Meta description languages such as Web Ontology Language and the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
The Evolution of Word Wide Web - WWW
Solutions for international industries to organize worldwide web sites.