most of us don't think of the internet as a piece of software that has a
version history like your favorite web browser operating system but there have
been enough big changes that developed more or less organically to lead some
folks to claim where on the second possibly even third version of the
internet but how did we get here back in
the early days of the web say up until the early 2000s you obviously had people
that created content otherwise the web would have just been empty but most
internet users ERS were relatively passive and that they were generally
looking at things that other folks made think geoc City's pages with spinning
gifts and topical directories with bare links when average users were making
contributions they were relatively small think pre-social media era message
boards or online guest books for people to tell you how much they were in love
with backy boys lus but although those cute little gifts were considered fancy
by many at the time web pages themselves were actually quite simple for the most
part lots of pages didn't support CSS Dynamic HTML or other features that made
your browsing experience more interactive this was what many of us are
now calling the web 1.0 era even though
it wasn't known as such back then but the next era of the web predictably goes
by the term Web 2.0 which you're much more likely to have heard of at some
point while it's hard to sum up Web 2.0
is just a single concept a big Lynch pin of Web 2.0 is the idea that web pages
can change asynchronously without having to to refresh the whole thing this is
thanks to Technologies like JavaScript and Concepts like Ajax that allow web
pages to talk to the server in the background without affecting the rest of
the web page this made Pages much more
interactive as opposed to the web 1.0 era where interactivity was more limited
and depended more on proprietary plugins which you might remember from all those
active X messages that internet explorer was constantly giving everyone but Web
2.0 is much more than just Slicker operating pages so we'll tell you about
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a few bucks although Web 2.0 marked a big shift in webpage design it was just
as importantly a new way to think about the internet's fundamental use cases
instead of being a tool to just get information and opinions the dynamic
nature of web 2.0's capabilities means that sites are soliciting information
from you from you from me from from Us
online shopping sites like Amazon were among the first to exemplify this
concept but early social media sites like Myspace and Facebook quickly got us
thinking about the web as a tool to post to share to create rather than mostly
just to consume this also led to the idea of software as a service meaning
that not only are you you able to use the web as a platform for doing
everything from looking at Medical Records to betting on sports but also
that the companies providing these Services can continually update them in
the background a concept we're obviously very used to today and that has been
monetized heavily by services like AWS
and Microsoft Aur and Adobe remember when you can just buy a a seat a license
you can just use the software forever if you didn't want upgrades but what lies
Beyond Web 2.0 right now it's a little bit unclear as there are a couple of
competing definitions of what web 3 or web
3.0 might mean the former is the idea
that more and more services will be moved to a blockchain model to lessen
our dependence on very few corporations hoovering up all users personal
information providing an in ornament amount of services but given how
blockchain hasn't taken off in the same way crypto enthusiasts have wanted web 3
seems like it's more of a possible vision of the future rather than a
reality by contrast web 3.0 is also
known as the semantic web meaning that the content of web pages would be
designed to be more machine readable by using tags that would allow outside
services to quickly make sense of information on the page but you could
argue that AI has already been able to scoop this kind of information and
quickly create accurate summaries without the need for manual tagging by a
human in fact there is another Third Way To Think of web 3 or 3.0 as simply being
a web dominated by Ai and seeing as the
AIS we're used to are more centralized it's almost the philosophical opposite
of a web 3 blockchain which is more about privacy and freedom from a
platform dominated by a small group of huge companies this means that we
probably haven't arrived at a true successor to Web 2.0 yet and who knows
what it look like when it does happen what we do know is that Elder
Millennials will be mad at it thanks for watching guys if you like this video why
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