It is a vision of a decentralized web that is currently a work in progress

Its best known platforms include YouTube, Facebook, and Amazon.

Personal web pages were common and consisted mainly of static pages.

It marked a shift towards interactive and user-generated content, including social media platforms, wikis, and blogs.

Its platforms allowed for two-way communication, enabling users to create and share content, and engage with others.

Provides even more personalized and context-aware experiences, with applications that can anticipate user needs and preferences.

Enables three-way communication, where machines can also interact with users and other machines.

Sites are built using simple HTML code, without the use of complex programming languages or frameworks.

Its platforms laid the foundation for the integration of augmented reality (AR) into web-based experiences.

AI will play an even greater role in creating context-aware, personalized experiences for users.

AR will play an even more prominent role in creating immersive, interactive experiences for users.

It is also known as the Social Web

It is also known as the Intelligent or Semantic Web

Appearance of the WWW.

Users become "prosumers" of information.

Started in the late 90's and early 2000

Started in the Mid 2000

Redefined data ownership.

Users start accesing websites and social networks with their mobile phones.