From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0

 The Internet ecology has undergone a transformation from web 1.0 to web 2.0 in the past three decades. Where is the future of web 3.0, it is worth thinking about and exploring.

web 1.0

In the early 1990s, after the invention of the HTTP protocol, various websites sprang up one after another. In the early days, such as AOL and Yahoo, they all created amazing growth miracles.

The characteristics of these websites are that the owner is responsible for providing the content, and the user can only read the content and use the service. In other words, the classic single-production-many-consumption model.

The model of web 1.0 makes the right to speak on the World Wide Web in the hands of a few website service providers, a few decide the mainstream voice, and the rest are the silent majority.

web 2.0

web 1.0 spawned the booming .com bubble. Ten years later, in the fall of 2001, Internet stocks crashed, marking the beginning of the 1.0 model's gradual decline.

People began to discuss a new generation of web models, and after several years of exploration, the 2.0 model gradually became popular. This model begins to support user interaction, that is, users can create and decide content.

In the early days of web 2.0, blogs were used as a typical application, which represented a transition from a traditional user consumption model to a user who could become a content producer at the same time. Further, in the later period, social networking sites around social networking were born, and twitter, facebook, etc. became famous for a while. This pattern continues to this day.

While users can interact and create content, the platform remains firmly in the hands of a handful of internet giants, meaning they can easily channel and control so-called "mainstream" voices.

web 3.0

With the emphasis on privacy protection and the awareness of personal data rights, users are beginning to be dissatisfied with the existing network ecosystem, hoping to get their own interests back through a new generation of network models.

Web 3.0 is pinned on this kind of good hope. At present, the concept of web 3.0 is still in development, and the early exploration mainly hopes to combine distributed ledger technology to allow users to control their own identity information while limiting the sharing of data. Decentralized finance, data storage and trading applications have emerged.

Summarize

From the early web 1.0 to the web 3.0 that is still under discussion, it can be seen that the user's demand for interactive participation is constantly increasing, and at the same time, they hope to have their own control over the data on the network. This will be a huge challenge to the existing Internet ecosystem, and it may take ten or even decades to evolve.