Sep 09 2008
Web 1.0 VS. Web 2.0
welcome every one what you are about to read is how web 2.0 is different from web 1.0 and the way it make our lives a little bit easier. First why don’t we see what web 1.0 was and how it’s different then what we have to day.
Web 1.0
It spans from the beginning of the Internet around 1994. This ‘era’ goes all the way up to about 2004. So we’re looking at a time span of about 10 years – the first 10 years of the Internet. This was a time where pretty much all you could do was READ web pages others made. It was difficult to make pages yourself because you had to know code (html). During the web era we were only “consumers” - we could only read/consumer/take/process what others wrote or made. There was little or no interactivity on the web - you couldn’t drag and drop things on web pages, couldn’t leave comment, rate things, share , publish or customize your page. People mainly used software installed on their comp. Hard drive to create things. But, this usually was expensive. And because software was on your hard drive, you were tied down to using just your computer. Now lets take a look at how Web 2.0 makes our live easier.
Web 2.0
This era started around 2004 and is continuing still today. It’s the second phase of what we know as the Internet. In this new era of web we can still consume information, but now we can PRODUCE our own information. we are both consumers and producers now. we can contribute to the web . comment , blog, make super quick web pages in Gdocs, we can make information. Instead of relying on software to make things to put on the web, we now use web-ware – this is were a online Severus will provide some type of application – but usually its free and usually you get accesses to the web-ware over the Internet. Examples of web-ware. Google docs, Splashup.com, Animoto.com, Edublogs.org Visit web-ware.com to see a HUGE list of awesome software. A key idea about this new use of the Internet is the web-ware allows you to Preview this Post collaborate – this means to work with someone else, share ideas, work on projects together. cool thing is you don’t have to be in the same room to do this any more. Web 2.0 is all about people using the web to have conversation.
Here is a short video on Web 2.0
