Evolution of Web tools

  • Web 1.0

    Refers to the first stage of the World Wide web. This lasted from 1989-2005. This term was first coined by Tim Berners-Lee and is considered the " read only" web.
  • Web 1.0- Archie: The first search engine

    Search Engine created by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The original name was Archives but it was shortened to Archie. It helped solve the data scatter problem.
  • Web 1.0 Yahoo- Creation

    Yahoo was started at Stanford University and was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students.
  • Web 1.0- Outlook/ Hotmail

    Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. It was founded in 1996 as Hotmail by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.
  • Web 2.0

    Refers to the World Wide Website. The term was popularized by Tim O' Reilly and Dale Dougherty @ O' Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. It is the " writable" phrase of the World Wide Web with interactive data.
  • Web 3.0- Google Earth

    Google Earth is a geobrowser that accesses satellite and aerial imagery, ocean bathymetry, and other geographic data over the internet to represent the Earth as a three-dimensional globe.
  • Web 2.0- Flickr

    Flickr is an image- and video-hosting website and web services. It

    It was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp.
  • Web 2.0- Facebook

    Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
  • Web 3.0- Microblogging

    Microblogging is a broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging.
  • Web 2.0- Youtube

    Youtube was created bycreated by PayPal employees as a video-sharing website where users could upload, share and view content.
  • Web 3.0

    This is the " executable" phrase of the World Wide Web and is a semantic web and this refers to the future. Some say this kind of web 3.0 started in the late 2000s
  • Web 3.0- Apple's Siri

    Siri is an intelligent personal assistant.