General Web Concepts

 

Web 0.0 – Developing the internet

Web 1.0 – The shopping carts & static web
Experts call the Internet before 1999 “Read-Only” web. The average internet user’s role was limited to reading the information which was presented to him. The best examples of this 1.0 web era are millions of static websites which mushroomed during the dot-com boom (which eventually has led to the dotcom bubble). There was no active communication or information flow from consumer (of the information) to producer (of the information).
Web 2.0 uses the read write web, blogs, web applications, rich media, viral media, tagging or Folksonomy while sharing content and focusing on communities.

The Web 3.0 standard uses semantic web, drag n drop mash ups, widgets, user behavior or Me-onomy, advertisement, user engagement, consolidates dynamic content and focuses on individuals.

Web 3.0 uses the ‘Data Web’ technology featuring structures data records that are publishable and reusable on the web through query-able formats like RDF, XML and micro formats. It is the stepping-stone to complete semantic web, which enables new levels of application operability, data integration and makes data openly linkable and accessible in the form of web pages. The complete semantic web stage expands the scope of both structured and un-structured content through OWL and RDF semantic formats.
The web 3.0 standard also describes the latest trends for artificial intelligence. Mass level use of technology is promptly visible here as in the case of an application that makes hit song predictions based on music websites of various colleges available on the net. Web 3.0 aims to highlight intelligence in an organic fashion through the interaction of people.

Web 4.0 – “Mobile Web”
The next step is not realy a new version, but is a alternate version of what we already have. Web needed to adapt to it’s mobile surroundings. Web 4.0 connects all devices in the real and virtual world in real-time.

Web 4.0 5.0- Open, Linked and Intelligent Web = Emotional Web

“The next web”
Tim Berners-Lee gave an inspired TED talk in 2009 on this new Open en Linked Web.

Although Web
4.05.0 still is in developing mode and the true shape is still forming, first signals are in that Web
4.05.0 will be about a linked web which communicates with us like we communicate with each other (like a personal assistant). Web
4.05.0 is called “symbiotic” web. This Web will be very powerful and fully executing.   Web
4.0 5.0will be the read-write-execution-concurrency web.
Web 5.0 will be about the (emotional) interaction between humans and computers. The interaction will become a daily habit for a lot of people based on neurotechnology. For the moment web is “emotionally” neutral, which means web does not perceive the users feel and emotions. This will change with web 5.0 – emotional web.   One example of this is www.wefeelfine.org, which maps emotions of people. With headphones on, users will interact with content that interacts with their emotions or changes in facial recognition.