IS WEB 3.0 THE UPCOMING INTERNET EVOLUTION?

Sara Shah
3 min readOct 5, 2020
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Technology has become an integral part of human life especially in 2020 where many of us are still working from home and probably going to work from home for the remaining duration of the year.

As every industry has its different terminologies and abbreviations — The information Technology AKA IT Industry also has its special terms.

Today we are going explore one of those special terms WEB 3.0 that you have probably come across or you may have come across.

So, when from the next time when you caught up in those conversations, you’ve got the basic understanding and you are not gonna blinded by techies.

There few of the statements by some of the well-known tech-giants that WEB 3.0 is the upcoming Internet Evolution! Is it? Let’s check out!!

WAIT!! WHAT’S WEB 1.0 & WEB 2.0?

Before we start digging into what’s web 3.0 and found out that is it going to change the face of the website development industry or how the web development is being done.

WEB 1.0

Remember those days where the internet was just meant to be a platform to share information.

If you could remember in those initial days of websites where they looked like a single-page flyer or pamphlet sharing information about a business or service or any product. It’s simple one-way communication.

WEB 2.0

It’s a step ahead — WEB 2.0 lets you interact with the user along with the sharing of information.

Like you have surfed many websites where you can interact by posting a comment at the end of a web page or you can just click on some button to enter into any challenge or competition to win some exciting gift vouchers of prizes. Of course, social media is all about WEB 2.0. It’s a straightforward two-way communication — The Website & You.

WHAT’S WEB 3.0 — SOME GENERAL INFORMATION IN LAYMEN’S LANGUAGE!

WEB 3.0 is a kind of technology where the computer is doing smart stuff. Consider a top-class e-commerce website where you regularly browse and purchase the product of your need.

You might observe that the website itself is giving you the various option or recommendation for any product you interested to buy in, It not sharing the information as you are not getting all the product information which they are selling, it’s kind of the smart interaction from the website server to you who is giving you some of the best of the options intelligently on your behalf.

So, that WEB 3.0 in general. It’s a 3-way communication involving You, The website (Client/Service Provider) & The web server.

SO, WHAT’S WEB 3.0 — THE TECHNICAL ASPECT

Web 3.0 is the upcoming age of Internet innovation that intensely depends on the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

It enables us to make more open, associated, and smart web development, which concentrates on learning and understanding of data based on AI & ML.

WHAT MAKES WEB 3.0 THE NEXT BIG THING

  1. MORE ACTIVE BROWSING:
    With the use of WEB 3.0, we can say your browser will act as your assistant which will provide more relevant search results.
    With the use of WEB 2.0 sometimes the results can be manipulated but that can be refined with the use of AI-based technology.
  2. ENHANCED ADVERTISEMENT & MARKETING CAMPAIGNS:
    Interruption from advertisements is frustrating. But, with the use of WEB 3.0 — which utilizes the user data that delivers and reaches out to the aimed audiences.
  3. IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE:
    Users are the main component of the website development industry.
    Some of the companies lack in provides customer support services properly either due to lack of manpower, due to lack of expansion budget, and many more reasons. WEB 3.0 provides smart chatbots who serve multiple customers at a time and also being convenient to the user.
  4. MULTIFUNCTIONAL:
    This era has already begun where you can access many mobile applications from various devices such as your Televisions, Desktops, Cars, and many more.

CONCLUDING SUMMARY

So, the web development industry is constantly improving and upgrading, WEB 3.0 is going to boost up that phenomenon by enhancing the user experience on how the information is shared and things are viewed on the web.

Without a doubt, WEB 3.0 is surely an internet evolution.

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