The Evolution of the World Wide Web

To begin with, we rely on the internet for almost everything. Right from managing our money, searching for jobs, representing ourselves professionally as well as keeping contact with family and friends across the country or even across the world. It is also used to research, learn, share information, personally as well as professionally

Expansion of WWW: The 3 Phases

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

• Remaiin lmited mostly to static websites
• Mostly publishing / Brochure-ware. Limited to reading only for the 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
• Microblogging
• Cloud and Grid Computing
• Open ID
• Semantic Search
• Semantic Techniques like RDF, SWRL, OWL etc. [ReadMore]