Web 3.0 - CIT 154B

To explain web 3.0, you first have to know what web 2.0 was. The internet came of age at the turn of the millennia and there were drastic changes coming about to how people used the internet. It was becoming much more involved rather than just static web pages with animated gifs and news articles. The shift to web 2.0 was allowing content to be created, shared, altered, revised, etc in a dynamic way on the internet. Instead of just stating information and reading it, users had the chance to discuss it, interact with it, share it, and more. Flash and CSS (cascading style sheets) made interactive or ever changing web pages that allowed users to customize their own web browsing experience. After nearly 2 decades of web 2.0, we’re on the verge of a new breakthrough in the internet. This is being dubbed web 3.0. While it’s mostly a buzz term and not a specific title, it’s meant to state a change of the internet again. Just as web 2.0 introduction new features to websites, web 3.0 is evolving as new technologies emerge every day. The introduction of smart phones and other mobile devices radically changed the way the internet was being consumed. Instead of using a keyboard, mouse, and big screen to interact, users now tap away with their fingers are small, yet ever increasing in size, screens that can offer a wide new variety of ways to interact with a web page. A large part of the new web 3.0 is learning software, often referred to as artificial intelligence (A.I.) that is adapting or creating content based on user interactions with no input from the developers, other than the original creation of the software. Things like bots have been a big part of twitter and other social media outlets. They post things on their own, share information, and even try to imitate humans at times. All these new things are going to change in years to come, just as it took over a decade for web 2.0 to be fully realized, web 3.0 will be evolving over the next 10-20 years.

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