The Shift in World Wide Web through the years!

Earlier World Wide Web (Web 1.0), had static web pages with no web design. It was a read-only material presented by those who put it on the web. The world wide web was simply made up of a number of websites which were indexed by search engines, such as Google. Internet connections were slower and this contributed a lot in the restrictions of the internet.

The refinement of these factors was the onset of the Web 2.0 which now has broadband, browsers and Flash applications, as well as the use of widgets. All this was a result of the change in the people using the World Wide Web who are no longer computer illiterate. Website content is now generated by the internet users themselves. Apart from that, web pages in Web 2.0 are more dynamic and one can use blogs, wikis and social networks, as well as podcasts, video calling and conferencing, collaborative catalogues of movie files, information and audio, and also RSS feeds. Apart from that the internet user can also: put up comments on images and statuses in social networks (such as on Facebook) or even edit the content on a wiki, developing a read-write web.

This makes it obvious that these web applications are facilitating the sharing of information and collaboration since it is becoming user-centred and this is all due to using network protocols and plug-ins to handle the new types of contents that are being put up on the web. This shift has already changed a lot the idea that people had about world wide web, as while earlier it was just a source of information, nowadays it has become a way to connect with others as well as a personal live portfolio since users can have as many accounts with as many applications as he or she likes. It can also be seen clearly that the more it goes, the internet is becoming more efficient to search for information, to communicate, to work, and also to use while having some free time.

Following this, one might have already heard about the Web 3.0. In fact, there are already plans in more improvements to be added to the current Web 2.0 to form up the Web 3.0 that will probably be used in the next few years. In fact I have found this particular website in which one can read more about the Web 3.0 in comparison with the Web 2.0: http://www.suite101.com/content/what-is-web-30-a61407