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The terminology of the digital era is unique, comprised of a confusing variety of buzzwords, slang, and words that are just as likely to distract as to inform. Although the meanings of many of these new words are sometimes unclear, they have become part of our everyday vocabulary.
For instance, even though "The Web"
and "the Internet" are two distinct concepts, many people mistakenly
use them interchangeably.
Consider the Internet as the highway infrastructure that
connects many cities, whereas the Web is the network of petrol stations,
convenience stores, and other stops. The Internet has been used and continues to be utilized by all versions of the Web to connect users to websites and one
another. That feature continues to exist.
In any case, the pages
and websites you access online are referred to as the Web, formerly known as
the World Wide Web. The Web runs on a collection of interconnected computer
systems called the Internet, and the medium also enables the transfer of data
and emails. This is how the Web and the Internet vary from one another.
WEB 1.0
The early stages of the World Wide Web's development are
called "Web 1.0." Because most users in Web 1.0 were content
consumers rather than content producers, they had direct access to information,
knowledge, and resources.
Personal websites were widely used, and the majority of them
consisted of static pages hosted on free web servers or those managed by
ISPs.
It was just intended to facilitate easier information
discovery. Users looking for information, such as a phone directory (that one
we get from the telephone exchange), were the focus of this web version. Due to the
absence of the necessary forms, images, controls, and interactivity that we expect from modern websites, this web version is frequently
referred to as "The Read-only Web”.
Web 1.0 disallowed the use of ads when browsing websites.
Ofoto was a digital photography service that allowed users to store, share,
view, and print digital images back in Web 1.0. Web 1.0 introduced the content
delivery network (CDN), which allows websites to display pieces of information.
It can be used by someone as their own personal website. Every page a user
view incurs a fee. From its directories, users can obtain specific bits of
information. Between 1991 and 2004, Web 1.0 was widely used.
Web 1.0 Site Design Essentials of:
- It consisted of static pages that were linked to a system using hyperlinks.
- In order to provide content, the server's file system was utilized, in the absence of a relational database management system.
- Using the Common Gateway Interface or Server Side Includes, pages were produced (CGI).
- In order to position and align the items on a page, it had HTML 3.2 features like frames and tables.
- The email was used to send HTML forms.
- This had GIF visuals and buttons.
Web 1.0 in short,
Take a physical dictionary e.g. "Yellow Pages",
scan everything inside of it, and make it available online for users to browse
but not for any input.
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Features of Web 1.0:
- No User-to-Server Communication: Web 1.0 was characterized by static HTML pages that were manually updated. There was no user-to-server communication in Web 1.0 and users were limited to viewing and reading the content that was published.
- Static Web pages: or Stationary pages that used delivered to the user's web browser exactly as stored, in contrast to dynamic web pages which are generated by a web application.
- Content surfing merely: The first version of the internet, web 1.0, was created by Tim Berners-Lee and is often referred to as the "read-only web" because users could only search for information and read it - there weren’t many interactions or content generation capabilities.
- Page hyperlinking and bookmarking: It was created as a hyperlinked information system. Hyperlinking and bookmarking were used to navigate users or readers to their desired web pages.
- Text Email: There was no option to attach a file or image, only text emails could be written and sent.
Web 1.0 mostly consisted of Read-Only websites that had a business focus and were simpler and more passive. Home pages were used to establish the majority of websites. Since there were very few content providers at that time of the Web, all the information and content were in web forms, directories, and owned.
Since sharing information was the objective. The page view system was in operation at the time, thus visitors had to pay to access the page containing the information they wanted.
In Web 1.0, banner advertising was the only way to display or advertise anything on the internet.
Since the majority of that data was unfocused, people relied
on resources like Encyclopaedia and Britannica online for accurate information.
Some of the first technologies used to connect people online
are still in use today, though those have been developed and improved
considerably since then. These include web and file servers, search engines
(Altavista, Yahoo!), e-mail accounts (Yahoo!, Hotmail), and peer-to-peer file
sharing (Napster, BitTorrent). Even something as simple as the web's formatting
language "HTML" has come a long way since the early days of the web.
URI or URL: A Uniform Resource Identifier is a unique address used to identify each resource on the web. While HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol was used for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web.
