Description of Web1.0 to 3.0 Development

Web 1.0, information "feeding" With the emergence of the "WWW", people began to create a variety of displayable information on the page, such as news, information and various pictures, etc. Through the Web, resources on the Internet can be displayed more intuitively in a web page, and resources can be chained to and from each other on the web page.

During this time, many familiar companies were born, such as Google, Yahoo, Sohu and Sina, which formed major portals through the display of various web information, and then attracted users to click and watch, so as to customize advertising and cash in through traffic, and later we often call this period Web1.0 (from about 1991 to 2004).

"In Web 1.0, there were very few content creators and the vast majority of users were simply acting as consumers of content."(GreeksForGreek, 2018)

Web 2.0, Information Interaction

Web 2.0 was invented by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and later promoted by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Web 2.0 became more widely accepted when it was promoted by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004. For the sake of distinction, the previous period of web development is referred to as Web 1.0 (Wikipedia, 2021).

Web 1.0 is characterized by websites providing content and users reading the content, just like we watch TV, we can only watch what others want to show us, and we have no way to influence what the TV station shows.

However, as more and more people join the Internet industry, some more interesting business models are gradually born, such as the birth of blogs, the birth of Facebook social platform, the country is more familiar with QQ space and so on, and the biggest feature of this type of websites and applications is that they allow users to generate their own content, interact with the site and others, interoperability, which is also Web2.0 features.

From Web1.0 "read-only" to Web2.0 "interactive", in fact, is not a replacement process, although most of the Internet applications and products are now belong to Web2.0, but there are still many belong to Web1.0 projects are still running. And many Internet practitioners in Web2.0 are thinking about how the Internet should develop next, so there are various Web3.0 ideas. Web3.0 in the Internet era

With the gradual application of artificial intelligence, some new Internet business models are emerging, such as whenever we are reading news, the website's algorithm will automatically give recommendations for similar articles based on our previous article preferences, and each time we shop online, it will also recommend items that are more inclined to buy.

This means that websites can start learning and analyzing through users' behaviors to become smarter, so some Internet practitioners have defined Web 3.0 as a "smarter Internet".

The main features are that machines can read any information (i.e. Semantic Web), websites provide intelligent culling and better information based on information (artificial intelligence), and the Internet is everywhere (Internet of Things).

So, is that how Web 3.0 should be defined and will it be viewed differently?

The current state and development of Web 3.0

When we talk about the development of Web3.0, we have to further mention something about blockchain, because the decentralized, de-trusted and tamper-proof characteristics of blockchain are well aligned with the goal of Web3.0 - to create a new generation of Internet where each user is in control of his or her own data, identity and destiny. In addition to blockchain, Web3.0 has more things worth digging, including the addition of artificial intelligence, distributed storage protocols, and a more secure password system, which together paint the blueprint of Web3.0, so we have the following clearer judgment on the present and future of Web3.0.

First, we need to solve the data storage and transmission (communication) problem of Web3.0, which is the basic engineering of Web3.0 and the underlying framework that some blockchain projects are pursuing; second, we will consider the feasibility of applications and access to secure digital identity; finally, we can present browsers and websites that are more in line with public perception, which is what we think is the This is the general development path of Web 3.0.

This page will focus on "open source" to explain.

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 * 1) GreeksForGreek, 2018, Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 with their difference, GreeksForGreek, viewed 19 May 2021, < https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/web-1-0-web-2-0-and-web-3-0-with-their-difference/ >
 * 2) Wikipedia, 2021, Web 2.0, WIKIPEDIA, viewed 21 May 2021, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 >