Expansion of WWW: The 3 Phases

Expansion of WWW: The 3 Phases

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

• Remain limited 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.

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