Web 1-two-Web 3: Convenience unlocked๐
An informational digest on how we progressed from Web 1 to Web3 and what are they?๐ฎ
Web 1๐ฉ vs Web 2๐ vs Web 3๐ช
- Web 1.0
Internet of Connection: Implementations of emails were done, basically connections between agencies. - Web 2.0
Internet of Information: Implementation of information like e-Commerce, YouTube, Reddit, videos, and images on the internet. - Web 3.0
Internet of Value: Implementation of sending or collecting monetary assets like we share photos, movies around us.
Let us look into details about each, so...
Web โ๐ฝ
- Development of a host(admins) of web-based applications, usable in establishing online services, such as email.
- Content was only given by the administrator(read-only content).
- Managed by a central authority(mostly Government authorities).
- Email was the first widely adopted and popular application on the Internet.
- Suddenly, companies started to attempt to cash in on this new technology, most notable was a company called Netscape which developed the first commercial web browser.
Web โ๐ฝ
- User-generated content was unlocked.๐
- Read was already in web 1 but web 2 introduced write.โ
- Individuals could interact with information both ways(read and provide comments or maybe create their own).
- Data became a commodity to be collected, harvested, and sold.
- Websites and applications that let users generate content, social networks became part of our lives, like Facebook, Google+, Orkut, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and Napster, etc.
Case Study: A glimpse of Web3:
BitTorrent(2001; P2P case)
Their approach:
- Music was stored on many computers connected peer-to-peer(P2P).
- BitTorrent's software was purely decentralized.
- The files were stored as packets on the peers'(those using the file) computer.
- When a request was made for a song, the software would find the packet and send it to the client.
Consequence faced:
- Music industry imposed copyright infringement on BitTorrent.
- BitTorrent was asked to shut down their platform.
- Since they do not control the software once downloaded to a peer.
- If two computers are running the software sharing would still occur.
- Now, BitTorrent is operating today, but with a different business model.
Web ๐๐ฝ
- More Community interaction.
- More connected, open, and intelligent network.
- Distributed ledgers or blockchain technology, smart contracts, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Identity and information will be held by the individual, breaking data exclusivity, both parties now store the communications.
- Bitcoin is the first widely accepted application for the Internet of Value (just as email for Web1).
P.S. - Web 1, Web 2, and Web 3 are interconnected, nobody's going anywhere.๐ค๐ฝ
Well folks! that's it for this time. I hope that you've learned something interesting from this one. Make sure to comment on what you've found interesting or any point that I might have missed :)
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