The starting of Web 3.0

// August 28th, 2008 // Programming, Sites, Uncategorized, Useful&Interesting Discusions

The internet has evolved a lot since it first began. Content becomes more and more complex and the posibilities seem unlimited. Let’s take a journey to the past to see how it all began, come back to the present and see what lies in the future of the internet.

The internet was created by ser Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989. He wanted something to send and receive information between many computers located in CERN. Actually he wanted to be able to store some data (test results and many more) on a computer and other could connect and read those datas.

Every resource was accesed by it’s adress or URL (uniform resource locator). There was also a protocol for accesing these datas: HTTP. These resources were viewed as documents and these documents could contain inside them other URLs. He had the ideea that “everythink could link to everything”. This way the Internet was born. At first very small but it growned fast.

But is actually a website? A website is a colection of many pages (documents) conected to one-another that refer to a specific company or organization. There are also web aplications. These aplications are web pages rendered dinamycally that is ment to give the user some sort of functionality.  The interactivity between the user and the web server is done throught a web interface. The web interface actually is the site. Web application=Interface+Data+Program. All of them are important. If one fails, the entire architecture fails.

What about Web 2.0? Most of you will think of fancy layouts with glossy buttons and cool reflexions. But that isn’t actually Web2.0 in terms of programming. Web 2.0 means that the user can generate content. In web 1.0 the user was just a consumer. The web was most “Read-only”.

“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web?like existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across miles and distrust around a corner.” – Tim Berners?Lee

Tim O’Reilly in 2005 said that Web 2.0 means that the user can control the data on the web. So this lead to the apparition of new applications: Weblogs (Blogs), Wikis, Social Networking Websites, Potcasts, Videocasts and many more. Later, this lead to the apparition of servicies and NOT program packages.Many programs like MS Office started to be replaced, slwoly but surely, by services like Google Docs, Photo Album software have been replaced almost completly by Adobe Photoshop Express or similar services. The list can go on.

This way, the web was not read-only anymore but read/write web. Any user can ad new content to the web with a few clicks. The user now chooses exactly what, when and were he wants to see. But with this freedom there was also a problem of rights. That is why Creative Commons appeared: reasonable, flexible copyright. Everyone was happy: The original author and the readers and users as well.

Web blogs became very popular in this period. There were hundreds of new blogs every day. Also a new ideea, micro-blogs, evolved later on (Twitter). Wikis started to become more and more trusworthy. Everyone that needed some information about a specific historical event or a country or many more things would go to wikipedia to find it.

With all these there was a major problem. All of the websites needed you to log-in in order for you to make changes to the web. If you have accounts to many services you would need to have a different username and a pasword for each if you want to stay secure. If you have the same username/password, in case one gets hacked the hacker has acces to all the other accounts as well. Remembering these is really hard. so that is why OpenID was invented:one account to controll everything. High secure digital identity for each and unyque user.

Because of all this, a few problems can come to the surface. The main one is “information overlow”. To much data for the user to pick. A studdy has shown that 44% of the adult american population is a public web writer. In web 3.0 these problems start to be fixed. Web 3.0 is “Semantic Web”. The solution is RDF (Resource Description Framework). Using an association of meta-data the web is organized. This can also be done to create relations between people in Social Networking Websites. This evolotion will also lead to the aparition of other services like WebOS and Inteligent Services.

Conclusion:
Anyone can say anything about anything
No one knows everything about anything
My system is most valuable because of its interconnection to its peers

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