Web 1.0
Web 1.0, or web, refers to the first stage of the World Wide Web linking webpages with hyperlinks.
Contents |
[edit] History
Hyperlinks between webpages began with the release of the WWW to the public in 1993,[1] and describe the Web before the "bursting of the Dot-com bubble" in 2001.
Since 2004, Web 2.0 has been the term used to describe social web, especially the current business models of sites on the World Wide Web.[2]
[edit] Characteristics
Terry Flew, in his 3rd Edition of New Media described what he believed to characterize the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0:
"move from personal websites to blogs and blog site aggregation, from publishing to participation, from web content as the outcome of large up-front investment to an ongoing and interactive process, and from content management systems to links based on tagging (folksonomy)".
Flew believed it to be the above factors that form the basic change in trends that resulted in the onset of the Web 2.0 "craze".[3]
The shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 can be seen as a result of technological refinements, which included such adaptations as "broadband, improved browsers, and AJAX, to the rise of Flash application platforms and the mass development of widgetization, such as Flickr and YouTube badges". As well as such adjustments to the Internet, the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 is a direct result of the change in the behavior of those who use the World Wide Web[original research?]. Web 1.0 trends included worries over privacy concerns resulting in a one-way flow of information, through websites which contained "read-only" material. Now, during Web 2.0, the use of the Web can be characterized as the decentralization of website content[citation needed], which is now generated from the "bottom-up"[original research?], with many users being contributors and producers of information, as well as the traditional consumers[citation needed].
To take an example from above, Personal web pages were common in Web 1.0, and these consisted of mainly static pages hosted on free hosting services such as Geocities[original research?]. Nowadays, dynamically generated blogs and social networking profiles, such as Myspace and Facebook, are more popular[citation needed], allowing for readers to comment on posts in a way that was not available during Web 1.0[citation needed].
At the Technet Summit in November 2006, Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, stated a simple formula for defining the phases of the Web:
| “ | Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0. | ” |
[edit] Web 1.0 design elements
Some design elements of a Web 1.0 site include:
- Static pages instead of dynamic user-generated content.[4]
- The use of framesets[citation needed].
- The use of tables to position and align elements on a page. These were often used in combination with "spacer" GIFs (1x1 pixel transparent images in the GIF format.[citation needed])
- Proprietary HTML extensions such as the <blink> and <marquee> tags introduced during the first browser war[citation needed].
- Online guestbooks[citation needed].
- GIF buttons, typically 88x31 pixels in size promoting web browsers and other products.[5]
- HTML forms sent via email. A user would fill in a form, and upon clicking submit their email client would attempt to send an email containing the form's details.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ (Berners-Lee 2000) Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web.
- ^ http://www.moveo.com/data/White_Papers/GettingThere_Dave_103006.pdf
- ^ Flew, Terry (2008). New Media: An Introduction (3rd Edition ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 19.
- ^ Web 1.0 defined - How stuff works
- ^ Web 1.0 Revisited - Too many stupid buttons
- ^ WEBalley - forms tutorial
