Web 1.0 , 2.0, 3.0

Comparative Study of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

Umesha Naik D Shivalingaiah

Abstract

The WWW is more and more used for application to application communication. The programmatic

interfaces made available are referred to as web services. Most people today can hardly conceive of

life without the internet. The web of documents has morphed into a web of data. The semantic

wave embraces three stages of internet growth. The first stage, web 1.0, was about connecting

information and getting on the net. Web 2.0 is about connecting people putting the “I” in user

interface, and the “we” into a web of social participation. The next stage, web 3.0, is starting now.

It is about representing meanings, connecting knowledge, and putting them to work in ways that

make our experience of internet more relevant, useful, and enjoyable.

Keywords : WWW, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web services, Web Technology, Web Application

1. Introduction

A web service is a software system designed to support computer-to-computer interaction over

the Internet. Web services are not new and usually take the form of an Application Programming

Interface (API). In today’s world of extreme competition on the business front, information

exchange and efficient communication is the need of the day. The web is an increasingly important

resource in many aspects of life: education, employment, government, commerce, health care,

recreation, and more. The web is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the

Internet. With a web browser, a user views web pages that may contain text, images, videos,

other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.

The web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN (The European Organization

for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role

in guiding the development of web standards (such as the markup languages in which web pages

are composed), in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic web. [2]

Web 1.0 was the era when people could think that Netscape was the contender for the computer

industry crown. Web 2.0 is the era when people have come to realize that it’s not the software

that enables the web that matters so much as the services that are delivered over the web. New

technologies will make online search more intelligent and may even lead to a web 3.0. Enter

web 2.0, a vision of the web in which information is broken up into “microcontent” units that can

be distributed over dozens of domains. The web of documents has morphed into a web of data.

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2. Web 1.0

In web 1.0, a small number of writers created web pages for a large number of readers. As a result,

people could get information by going directly to the source. The WWW or Web 1.0 is a system of

interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

WWW or Web 1.0

The first implementation of the web represents the web 1.0, which, according to Berners-Lee, could

be considered the “read-only web.” In other words, the early web allowed us to search for information

and read it. There was very little in the way of user interaction or content contribution. However, this

is exactly what most website owners wanted: Their goal for a website was to establish an online

presence and make their information available to anyone at any time. [9]

3. Web 2.0

Currently, we are seeing the infancy of the Web 2.0, or the “read-write” web if we stick to BernersLee’s method of describing it. The newly-introduced ability to contribute content and interact with

other web users has dramatically changed the landscape of the web in a short time. In alluding to

the version numbers that commonly designate software upgrades, the phrase “Web 2.0” hints at an

improved form of the WWW. Technologies such as weblogs (blogs), social bookmarking, wikis,

podcasts, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing), social software, web APIs, and

online web services such as eBay and Gmail provide enhancements over read-only websites. Stephen

Fry (actor, author, and broadcaster) describes Web 2.0 as “an idea in people’s heads rather than a

reality. It’s actually an idea that the reciprocity between the user and the provider is what’s emphasized.

In other words, genuine interactivity, if you like, simply because people can upload as well as

download”. [3]

Web 2.0501

Tim O’Reilly popularized web 2.0 as an expression when he wrote a fairly coherent definition. Web

2.0 is definitely the next big thing in the WWW. It makes use of latest technologies and concepts in

order to make the user experience more interactive, useful and interconnecting. It has brought