History of the Web

History


Web 1.0 Generally Web 1.0 websites are static. They contain information that could be useful, but have no reason for any visitor to return at a later time. The information is never updated and there are no dynamic features. Additionally, the Web 1.0 era of webpages are generally non-interactive. Users cannot impact or contribute to the websites with their own content or posts. Additionally, in the Web 1.0 period applications were mostly proprietary, meaning that the programs were not open source and developers had no intention of others developing on the back of them or modifying the applications in any way.

"The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information." -

General attributes

 * Fairly static information
 * Updated infrequently
 * Generally typified as 'brochureware' (converting an organizations printed information into an online format that is not typically edited or updated)

Elements

 * Images, navigation icons, text, menus

Writing style

 * Impersonal, professional, descriptive, statements of fact

Linking Structure

 * Minimal, unchanging, little interaction between websites

Web 2.0
Web 2.0 was officially coined in 2004 by, a vice-president of. It is often used to describe an ongoing transition of the from the collection of websites, to a full-fledged computing platform that can serve web applications to users.

Features

 * Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
 * Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
 * Trusting users as co-developers
 * Harnessing collective intelligence
 * Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
 * Software above the level of a single device
 * Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND

Web 3.0
The Semantic Web,  otherwise known as  Web 3.0,  is a proposed future state of the World Wide Web where machines will be able to process data on the web and carry out tasks based off that  data. In May of 2001,  published an article in    magazine about the idea of a "Semantic Web." The idea was well ahead of what currently existed. In 2001, the Web was in Berners-Lee's words, "designed for humans to read, not for computer programs to manipulate meaningfully." The Semantic Web will become an evolution of the current web, enhancing it rather than replacing it.