The Narrator: December 2022

Mount Tabor Training College

Pathanapuram

EDU 03: Technology and Communication in Education

Assignment

Topic Trends and advancements in www: web 1.0, web 2.0, web 3.0. web 4.0

Submitted to,

Ms Laiji R

Assistant Professor

Submitted by,

Ancy T

S1 English

Introduction

World Wide Web also known as Web or www is a hypertext interface to internet information resources. On the web, documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Everything on the web is interlinked by hypertext links and can be accessed easily via the internet. World Wide Web is different from the internet in the sense that the internet is a global network of networks but the web is a collection of information that could be accessed through the internet.

Web Page

Text documents that are formatted and annotated with Hypertext Markup Language are called web pages. It may contain images, videos, audios, and software components that are rendered to the user as multimedia content. Each page available on the website is called a web page and the first page of any website is called the home page for that site.

Web Site

Multiple web pages with a common theme, a common domain name, or both, make up a website. Website content is largely provided by the publisher or interactive where users contribute content or the content depends upon the user or their actions. Websites can be informative, some may be for entertainment, some are largely commercial, some have Governmental and others have non-governmental organizational purposes.

Web Server

A web server is a computer that runs websites. When a user requests a particular web page, it is the web server that distributes it. The basic objective of the web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to the users. This is done using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). These web pages are mostly static content that includes HTML documents, images, style sheets, tests etc. Apart from HTTP, a web server also supports SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol for emailing and file transfer and storage.

History of WWW

The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He also designed the first web browser named “WorldWideWeb” in 1990. This is different from the web and now the browser is known as Nexus. He also created HTML or Hypertext Mark-Up Language, URL or Uniform Resource Locator and HTTP or Hypertext Transfer Protocol. In 1991, the world wide web was opened for business.

Web 1.0

Web 1.0 is the term used for the earliest version of the Internet as it emerged from its origins with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and became, for the first time, a global network representing the future of digital communications. It lasted from 1989 to 2005. It is called a “web of documents” and Tim Beners-Lee considers it as a “read-only” web. It has a very passive role. The technologies used in web 1.0 include HTML, HTTP and URL.

The major characteristics of Web 1.0 are as follows:

• 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 uses basic Hypertext Mark-up Language.

The major limitations of Web 1.0 are as follows:

• The Web 1.0 pages can only be understood by humans (web readers) because they do not have machine-compatible content.

• The webmaster is solely responsible for updating users and managing the content of the website.

• Lack of Dynamic representation, that is, to acquire only static information, no web console was available to perform dynamic events.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 was the second generation of the web and it was called the “Web of People”. It began in 2002 and Dale Dougherty in 2004, defined it as a “read-write” web. The transaction in Web 2.0 is bi-directional and implies flexible web design, creative reuse, updates, collaborative content creation and modification. But it has certain limitations such as the constant iteration cycle of change and updates to services, ethical issues concerning the build and usage of Web 2.0 and interconnectivity and knowledge sharing between platforms across community boundaries.

Web 3.0

The term Web 3.0 was first coined by John Markoff of the New York Times and it is an “executable web”. Web 3.0 is used to define structure data and link them in order to more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse across various applications. It is able to improve data management, support accessibility of mobile internet, stimulate creativity and innovation and help to organize collaboration in the social web.

Web 3.0 is also known as the “semantic web”. The concept of a website or webpage disappeared with the advent of web 3.0. Here, data is not owned but shared. The main purpose is to drive the evolution of the current web by enabling users to find, share and combine information more easily.

Web 4.0

Web 4.0 is an Ultra-Intelligent Electronic Agent. Symbiotic web and Ubiquitous web. Interaction between humans and machines was the motive behind the symbiotic web. It is as powerful as the human brain and could bring progress in the development of telecommunications, advancement of nanotechnology in the world and controlled interfaces using web 4.0. In simple words, machines would be clever in 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 will be read-write concurrency web.

Conclusion

The Internet and the world wide web are part of our daily life. Human beings cannot live without a society and in the present day, society is controlled and maintained through the internet. A world without the web and the internet is impossible even in our dreams. The world wide web created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee has developed a lot from its primary form. Earlier it was just available in read-only format and the source was solely the server which provides the information. But later the purposes changed and the web has now become a collaborative form. Even the web has developed to an extent where we could say machines have become more powerful than humans. The development in the field of Web would make information sharing further easier.