Internet And The Evolution Of Web!

Can any of you who are reading this right now imagine your life if the internet didn't exist? I bet you cannot! Well for one thing you won't be reading this blog entry rite now.

It's true that there was a time when internet didn't exist and people did survive without it. They used the help of library books to gain information. They communicated via letters instead of e-mails. But with the invention of the internet all this and much more was made more convenient. All the information we need is just one click away. We don't need to spend hours in a library trying to find the right information, instead we can just type in any key word and get what we want within seconds on the internet. But what do we really know about this technology that has made our lives so easy? Here is some info for all of you who wonder about the same questions that I do.

Internet and Web- Not the same!

First of all to define internet, it is a global system of interconnected computer networks to serve billions of users worldwide. The internet carries a vast amount of information resources and services, most importantly the inter-linked hypertext documents of the world wide web(www). Whereas the web is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the internet. The term Web is often used as a synonym for internet, but it is just a service that operates over the internet, like e-mail services.

As we have already covered the history of internet, I thought it would be interesting to talk about the Web and its evolution as it is one of the most important and useful components of the internet.

This video will give you a better idea!

Invention of Web/ Web 1.0

On November 12, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland published a formal proposal along with Robert Cailliau, to build the World Wide Web, a platform for documents written in Hypertext language to be viewed by browsers, using client server architecture. The need for web had arisen from the need of the CERN physicists from around the world to share their data with each other on one platform. As it proved so useful to share data online with people across national boundaries, the world wide web was launched for the common public to use in sometime around 1991. This was the web that we know as web 1.0.

The difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

• Web 1.0 was just a platform where one could only publish their work that they wanted to share with others. The web pages used to be static with no dynamic aspect to it. It basically contained Read-only material.
• Web 2.0 was introduced the interactive platform, such as the blogs, where the readers can now actively contribute to the material online.
• So what's Web 3.0? Watch this video!!!

I hope that this entry has been informative for you! And hope you have enjoyed the videos!

*Disclaimer*- All the videos are taken from youtube.