© Shashank Mohan Jain 2023
S. M. JainA Brief Introduction to Web3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8975-4_1

1. Decentralization and Web3

Shashank Mohan Jain1  
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Bangalore, India
 

In this chapter, we are going to examine the evolution of Web 3.0 starting from Web 1.0 and 2.0.

1.1 Web 1.0

In Web 1.0, websites delivered static content (rather than dynamic content) written in hypertext markup language (HTML). The data and content were sent by means of a static file system as opposed to a database, and the web pages had only a minimal amount of interactive information.

The following is a list of the principal technologies that were included in Web 1.0:

  • HTML (HyperText Markup Language)

  • URL encoded in the HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP (Uniform Resource ...

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