The World Wide Web (WWW) is a great thing, with it being born in 1990. It has grown over the years to what is now, being a huge network of data that users can view, edit and even create their own. The current state of the WWW is in web 2.0 but the ever evolving web is going to eventually reach 3.0 but firstly, let me explain what I think 3.0 is, since there are many different adaptions of the definition.
“When you told me your grand plan for saving Gotham, the only thing that stopped me from calling the men in white coats was when you said that it wasn’t about thrill-seeking.”
Web 3.0 or Sematic Web as it is named is like your personal assistant. It can give you a more precise information about queries asked and it will remember information about you in further queries. For example, with the current Web 2.0. You want to go to a restaurant in your local city, the search engine will just pop out the most popular restaurant from it’s result. With Web 3.0 however, it will find out for you which places you should go to, depending on which other places you liked and what style of foods you like.
Although we are currently in Web 2.0, we are rather close to the new age of the WWW. Within the last few years, mobile internet has became a very common thing, having access to the internet from anywhere you can establish an connection wirelessly.
Also, many sites do tailor selected information to you based on what you have previously seemed/liked though this is still very much in its primitive stages and still has quite a long way to go. An example of this is Youtube. Lets say you watch a lot of videos of League of Legends (LoL) matches and like them a lot. It will grab that data and give you a recommendation list of more LoL videos for you to watch if you’re interested in, or maybe it will even give you Dota 2 Videos since both LoL and Dota 2 are apart of a similar genre.
In short, we still have a while to go until the new age of Web 3.0 comes into existence but we are much closer to it as it could happen within the next 5 years or less.