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Web 1.0 –
Web 1.0 refers to the first stage of the World Wide Web evolution. Earlier, there
were only few content creators in Web 1.0 with the huge majority of users who are
consumers of content. Personal web pages were common, consisting mainly of
static pages hosted on ISP-run web servers, or on free web hosting services.

In Web 1.0 advertisements on websites while surfing the internet is banned. Also,
in Web 1.0, Ofoto is an online digital photography website, on which user could
store, share, view and print digital pictures. Web 1.0 is a content delivery network
(CDN) which enables to showcase the piece of information on the websites. It can
be used as personal websites. It costs to user as per pages viewed. It has
directories which enable user to retrieve a particular piece of information.

Four design essentials of a Web 1.0 site include:

1. Static pages.
2. Content is served from the server’s file-system.
3. Pages built using Server Side Includes or Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
4. Frames and Tables used to position and align the elements on a page.

Web 2.0 –
Web 2.0 refers to world wide website which highlight user-generated content,
usability and interoperability for end users. Web 2.0 is also called participative
social web. It does not refer to a modification to any technical specification, but to
modify in the way Web pages are designed and used. The transition is beneficial
but it does not seem that when the changes are occurred. An interaction and

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collaboration with each other is allowed by Web 2.0 in a social media dialogue as
creator of user-generated content in a virtual community. Web 1.0 is enhanced
version of Web 2.0.

The web browser technologies are used in Web 2.0 development and it includes
AJAX and JavaScript frameworks. Recently, AJAX and JavaScript frameworks
have become a very popular means of creating web 2.0 sites.

Five major features of Web 2.0 –

1. Free sorting of information, permits users to retrieve and classify the
information collectively.
2. Dynamic content that is responsive to user input.
3. Information flows between site owner and site users by means of evaluation &
online commenting.
4. Developed APIs to allow self-usage, such as by a software application.
5. Web access leads to concern different, from the traditional Internet user base
to a wider variety of users.

Usage of Web 2.0 –

The social Web contains a number of online tools and platforms where people
share their perspectives, opinions, thoughts and experiences. Web 2.0
applications tend to interact much more with the end user. As such, the end user is
not only a user of the application but also a participant by these 8 tools mentioned
below:
1. Podcasting
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2. Blogging
3. Tagging
4. Curating with RSS
5. Social bookmarking
6. Social networking
7. Social media
8. Web content voting

Web 3.0 –
It refers the evolution of web utilization and interaction which includes altering the
Web into a database. In enables the upgradation of back-end of the web, after a
long time of focus on the front-end (Web 2.0 has mainly been about AJAX,
tagging, and another front-end user-experience innovation). Web 3.0 is a term
which is used to describe many evolutions of web usage and interaction among
several paths. In this, data isn’t owned but instead shared, where services show
different views for the same web / the same data.

The Semantic Web (3.0) promises to establish “the world’s information” in more
reasonable way than Google can ever attain with their existing engine schema. This
is particularly true from the perspective of machine conception as opposed to
human understanding. The Semantic Web necessitates the use of a declarative
ontological language like OWL to produce domain-specific ontologies that
machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions, not
simply match keywords.

Below are 5 main features that can help us define Web 3.0:
1. Semantic Web
The succeeding evolution of the Web involves the Semantic Web. The semantic
web improves web technologies in demand to create, share and connect
content through search and analysis based on the capability to comprehend the
meaning of words, rather than on keywords or numbers.

2. Artificial Intelligence
Combining this capability with natural language processing, in Web 3.0,
computers can distinguish information like humans in order to provide faster
and more relevant results. They become more intelligent to fulfil the
requirements of users.
3. 3D Graphics
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The three-dimensional design is being used widely in websites and services in

Web 3.0. Museum guides, computer games, ecommerce, geospatial contexts,
etc. are all examples that use 3D graphics.
4. Connectivity
With Web 3.0, information is more connected thanks to semantic metadata. As
a result, the user experience evolves to another level of connectivity that
leverages all the available information.
5. Ubiquity
Content is accessible by multiple applications, every device is connected to the
web, the services can be used everywhere.

Difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 –

Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

Mostly Read- Wildly Read- Portable and

Only Write Personal

Company Community Individual Focus

Focus Focus

Home Pages Blogs / Wikis Live-streams /

Waves

Owning Sharing Content Consolidating

Content Content

Web Forms Web Smart

Applications Applications

Directories Tagging User Behaviour

Page Views Cost Per Click User Engagement

Banner Interactive Behavioural

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HTML/Portals XML / RSS RDF / RDFS /

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