Below shows a definitive table I found online explaining exactly what is meant and the transitions this has taken.
I think this shows a clear explanation of definition and clear examples of each, which really helped me when starting to understand.
I can now use this to further my research and understanding during this module.
Web 1.0
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Web 2.0
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Web 3.0
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Definition (According to Burners-Lee)
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Read-only
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Read-write
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Read-write-execute
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Technologies associated with the era
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File and Web Servers
Content and Enterprise Portals
Search Engines (AltaVista, Yahoo!)
E-mail (Yahoo!, Hotmail)
P2P File Sharing (Napster, BitTorrent)
Publish and Subscribe Technologies
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Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
Adobe Flex
Enterprise Jave, Microsoft.NET Framework (Server side)
Blogs
Wikis
Instant Messaging
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Semantic Searching
Knowledge Bases
Ontologies
Personal Intelligent Digital Assistants
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Precedence Order
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First Stage
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Second Stage
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Third Stage
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Type of Web
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Simply Web
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Social Web
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Semantic Web
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No. of users
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Millions
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Billions
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Trillons
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Basic concept
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Connect information
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Connect people
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Connect knowledge
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Associated websites
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CNN
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Flikr, YouTube, Blogger
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GoogleMaps, My Yahoo!
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Years
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1990-2000
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2000-2010
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2010-2020
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Features
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Hyper linking and bookmarking on pages.
No communication between server and user.
Websites were Static.
It allowed only browsing of content.
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Better interaction.
Includes functions like Video streaming, Online documents, etc.
Introduction of web applications.
Everything becomes online and stores on servers.
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Smart, web based
applications and functionalities.
An amalgamation of Web technology and Knowledge
Representation (KR).
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