World Wide Web Evolution

Imran Abdul Ghani

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The evolution of the World Wide Web

Introduction

In the beginning, World Wide Web was introduced as a medium for sharing scientific and research documents, especially, between government organizations and academic institutions. But with the passage of time, it evolved and crossed the limits defined for it. Initially, till 1990, the WWW(World Wide Web) remained within the boundaries of CERN (a research organization), but by 1991, it became available to anyone using the internet.

Evolution of web from Web 1.0 (the World Wide Web) to Web 2.0 (the Social Web) and then to Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) is shown in the following figure:

Web 1.0 - The World Wide Web (1990 - 2000)

Limited mostly to static websites
Mostly publishing / Brochure-ware. Limited to reading only for majority.
Proprietary and closed access
Corporations mostly, no communities
HTTP, HTML

Web 2.0 - The Social Web (2000 - 2010)

Publishing as well as participation
Social Media, Blogging, Wikis
RSS - Syndicate site contents
Rich user experience
Tagging
Keyword search
AJAX, JavaScript Frameworks (jQuery, Dojo, YUI, Ext Js, etc.), XML, JSON

Web 3.0 - The Semantic Web (2010 - onward)

Mostly drag n drop
Highly mobile oriented
Widgets
Micro blogging
Cloud and grid computing
Open ID
Semantic search
Semantic techniques like RDF, SWRL, OWL, etc.

Let's see how long Web 3.0 will go and what more will come with Web 4.0 (the Intelligent Web).

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Written By

Imran Abdul Ghani

Software Developer (Senior) Emaratech

United Arab Emirates

Imran Abdul Ghani has more than 10 years of experience in designing/developing enterprise level applications. He is Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET(MCSD.NET) since 2005. You can reach his blogging at WCF Tutorials, Web Development, SharePoint for Dummies.