The evolution of the World Wide Web evolution has been beautifully put up into 3 categories, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0Â
Web 1.0 was the first stage of the world wide web, it had static web pages (pages that aren’t interactive based on user’s behaviour) or read-only websites. Most of the Web1.0 pages were made in the 90s and early 20s. Click here to check a list of websites.Â
Web 2.0 started out in the mid-00s and was the second stage of the world wide web, where people could interact with the web pages called dynamic websites. Websites or the applications you use in your everyday life, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or for the sake even the website you’re reading this right now, all come under Web 2.0. Â
Okay, so what is Web 3.0?
Technically there is no such thing as Web 3.0 (as of now) as no one can agree if it’s about semantic web or decentralisation, but in the buzz, it’s being called that. The community research has been going since 2004-2008 itself (according to the early articles and papers I could find) but it’s still very new in the buzz. So this article is about my thoughts about the concept.
Let's understand what decentralization is, it is the transfer of control from an individual, group, or organisation to a local network. Web 3.0 also being called the open internet in slang books is a decentralized Web 2.0, which means it will be controlled by the people belonging to that network.
Somethings that Web 3.0 will bring in are:
Data is the new gold, selling or tracking your data is a huge chunk of revenue for websites, Web 3.0 solves that as your data remains with you, no one can track it or sell it for running ads, or selling you the headphones you searched for on Google.
Now the sites won’t be DDoS(ed) or be vulnerable to attacks since there is no one source of the server running the website but multiple computers in the network.
Web 3.0 won’t be censored, now Kangana and Trump won’t be suspended for their tweets. But what if something that is posted is harmful and must be taken down, well, as I said, the community controls it, so once it’s on a ledger it can not be deleted but can be certainly filtered out by the community to either be shown or not.
Anonymity is one of the key features Web 3.0 will bring in, it won’t require any personal details to be set up, but a wallet. Having a wallet is like having a username for everything on Web 3.0 rather than having different usernames and passwords for every platform.Â
Some applications that might be used as a replacement/upgrade in Web 3.0.
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Written and Edited by,
Harshvardhan Singh
I think 3.0 is to www what crypto is to currency