Web1 vs Web2 vs Web3

Differences Between the Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0

S. No. Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0
1. Mostly Read-Only Wildly Read-Write Portable and Personal
2. Company Focus Community Focus Individual Focus
3. Home Pages Blogs / Wikis Live-streams / Waves
4. Owning Content Sharing Content Consolidating Content
5. WebForms Web Applications Smart Applications
6. Directories Tagging User behavior
7. Page Views Cost Per Click User Engagement
8. Banner Advertising Interactive Advertising Behavioral Advertising
9. Britannica Online Wikipedia The Semantic Web
10. HTML/Portals XML / RSS RDF / RDFS / OWL
11. Data was not Focused. Data of many was controlled by some mediatory. Data was personalized and no use of mediatory.
12. Information sharing is the goal. Interaction is the goal. Immersion is the goal.
13. It connects information as its primary goal. It aims to connect people. Focuses on relating knowledge.
14. Static websites Introduction of web applications Intelligent web-based functions and apps
15. A simpler, more passive web. An enhanced social Web A semantic web exists.
16. Web and File Servers, HTML, and Portals are technologies connected to Web 1.0. AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 are examples of related technology. Web 3.0 technologies include blockchain, artificial intelligence, and decentralized protocols.
17. Associated Technologies
  • Web and File Servers
  • Search Engines (including AltaVista and Yahoo!)
  • E-mail accounts (Yahoo!, Hotmail)
  • Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (Napster, BitTorrent) and others.
Associated Technologies
  • Frameworks for Ajax and JavaScript
  • Microsoft.NET
  • Blogs
  • Wikis and others.
Associated Technologies
  • Searching Using Semantics
  • Databases of Information
  • Ontologies
  • Intelligent Digital Personal Assistants and others.