Web Evolution

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
Web 1.0 is the first generation of the web which according to Berners-Lee, could be considered
the read-only web
It provides very little interaction where consumer can exchange the information together but it
was not possible to interact with the website.
Web 1.0 began as an information place for businesses to broadcast their information to people.
The early web provided a limited user interactions or content contributions and only allowed to
search the information and read it.
Web 1.0 was referred as the first generation of World Wide Web which was basically defined as
” It is an information space in which the items of interest referred to as resources are identified
by global identifier called as Uniform Resources Identifiers (URIs) “.
Uniform Resource Identifier is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on
the Internet
A URI identifies a resource either by location, or a name, or both. A URI has two
specializations known as URL and URN.

A URN is similar to a person's name, while a URL is like a street address. The URN defines
something's identity, while the URL provides a location.

CHARATERISTICS
Web 1.0 Technologies includes core web protocols:
HTML, HTTP and URI.
The major characteristics of Web 1.0 are as follow:
 They have read only content.
 Establish an online presence and make their information available to anyone at any time.
 It includes static web pages and use basic Hypertext Mark-up Language.
WEB 2.0
The term web 2.0 was officially defined in 2004 by Dale Dougherty, vice-president of
O’Reilly Media, in a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive
International.
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the
internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.
Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the
more people use them.”
Web 2.0 is also known the wisdom web, people-centric web, participative web, and
read-write web. With reading as well as writing, the web could become bi-directional. Web 2.0
is a web as a platform where users can leave many of the controls they have be used to in web
1.0. In other words, the users of web 2.0 have more interaction with less control.
One of outstanding features of web 2.0 is to support collaboration and to help gather
collective intelligence rather web 1.0.
The main technologies and services of web 2.0 are included blogs, really simple
syndication (RSS), wikis, mashups, tags, folksonomy, and tag clouds.
Really Simple Syndication - RSS is a family of web feed formats used for syndicating
content from blogs or web pages. RSS is an XML file that summarizes information items and
links to the information sources.
Wikis- A wiki is a web page (or set of web pages) that can be easily edited by anyone
who is allowed access.
Mashups- Web mashup is a web page (or web site) that combines information and
services from multiple sources on the web.
Developers use three basic development approaches to create applications of web 2.0:
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Flex, and the Google Web Toolkit.

WEB 3.0
John Markoff of the New York Times suggested web 3.0 as third generation of the web in
2006. Web 3.0 can be also stated as “executable Web”.
Web 3.0 is also known as semantic web
“The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and
reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries “.
 The main purpose of the Semantic Web is driving the evolution of the current Web by
enabling users to find, share and combine in formation more easily. The Semantic Web, as
originally envisioned, is a system that enables machines to “understand” and respond to complex
human requests based on their meaning. Such an “understanding” requires that the relevant
information sources be semantically structured.
Semantic web is not limited to publish data on the web; it is about making links to connect
related data. Berners-Lee introduced a set of rules have become known as the Linked Data
principles to publish and connect data on the web in 2007
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs to look up those names
3. Provide useful information by look up a URI
4. Include links to other URIs to discover more things
Data providers can add their data to a single global data space by publishing data on the web
according to the Linked Data principles.
WEB 4.0
Web 4.0 is still an underground idea in progress and there is no exact definition of how it
would be. Web 4.0 is also known as Ultra-Intelligent Electronic Agent, symbiotic web and
Ubiquitous web
Web 4.0 will be the read-write-execution-concurrency web
It will be possible to build more powerful interfaces such as mind controlled interfaces
using web 4.0. In simple words, machines would be clever on reading the contents of the web,
and react in the form of executing and deciding what to execute first to load the websites fast
with superior quality and performance and build more commanding interfaces.
Web 4.0 connects all devices in the real and virtual world in real-time.

WEB 5.0 Thinking Web