Web 1.0 Vs Web 2.0 Vs Web 3.0

Introduction

• If we don't know about decentralised internet by the end of this decade, we have to struggle like some old or illiterate people struggling now to use internet.
• Web 3 is the decentralised internet.
• Before knowing web 3, we first need to know about web 1 and web 2.

This article is an attempt to give readers a sense of what web 3 is.

Web 1.0

• Web 1.0 is the first iteration of web.
• The users could only see or read the data from the web applications.
• It wasn't possible to send data from user side to the server.
• The creators were mostly developers who build websites.
• The websites used to be static and hence, no interactivity.
• In simple words, websites were just newspapers but on computer screen in web 1.0 era.

Web 2.0

• The web that most of us using extensively now-a-days is web 2.0 .
• In web 1.0, you need to be a developer to share data through internet as you have to code the web application by yourself.
• But in web 2.0, you are not coding anything to share data on internet.
• We are just using an application like facebook or whatsapp to share anything.
• Web 2.0 is web 1.0 with interactivity.
• Users can not only read the data but can also write data (send data to server).

Disadvantages of web 2.0

• In web 2.0, the companies which built the applications for people to use has the centralised authority.
• That is why this is centralised internet.
• Companies have the access to the user data with which they can do whatever they want like advertising, recommendations.
• They are charging users for letting the people use their application like buying apps on app store or play store.
• Banks are also centralised and governments can also intervene in their decisions.
• These centralised organisations can shut down whenever they want.

All these are because of having a centralised power. In decentralised system, everyone in the network has equal power.

Web 3.0

• Web 3.0 aims to solve the issues discussed above.
• Web 3.0 applications doesn't just run on a single server and use a single database.
• Instead, they run on a block chain.
• To know what is block chain and how it works, read this short and informative article written by me a short article on block chain
• Applications which run on block chain are called decentralised applications (Dapps).
• Our data is safe in web 3.0. It is because that our identity in web 3.0 is a wallet address which is a long hash value rather than our actual details like name etc.
• Web 3.0 uses a peer to peer architecture.

Conclusion

There are many other advantages and details regarding to web 3. But this article aims to differentiate web 3 from web 2.

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