Evolution of Web Tools

  • Web 1.0

    About sharing information
    Online catalogs
    Early web was reading only
    Very little user interaction
  • Web 2.0

    Folksonomy – free classification of information; allows users to collectively classify and find information
    Rich user experience – dynamic content that is responsive to user input
    Information flows two ways between site owner and site users by means of evaluation, review, and online commenting.
  • Web 3.0

    Connected, open, and intelligent, with semantic Web technologies, distributed databases, natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, and autonomous agents.
  • Web 4.0

    Broadband adoption
    Mobile Internet access
    Mobile devices
  • Web 5.0

    A linked web which communicates with us like we communicate with each other (like a personal assistant).
    “symbiotic” web
    Be about the (emotional) interaction between humans and computers.