
122 Essentials of Cloud Computing
6.8 Web 3.0
The name Web 3.0 was given by John Markoff of The New York Times to this
third-generation of the web. The rst two generations of the web were called
Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 [20]. The three technologies could be briey described
as follows:
Web 1.0: Web 1.0 was the rst generation of the Web in which the main
focus was building the web, making it accessible, and also commer-
cializing it. The key areas of interest in Web 1.0 included protocols
such as HTTP, open standard markup languages such as HTML and
XML, Internet access through ISPs, the rst web browsers, platforms
and tools for web development, web-dev ...