Friday, October 14, 2011

Usage of Web Changes

From its infancy as a means for scientists to share information, the vast Internet network and its customer facing Web Browser application has morphed through the decades.

1990's : use the Web Browser to browse 
   We looked up information if the URL is given.
   Moasic, Netscape, Internet Explorer

2000's : use the Web Browser to search 
  First there were the portals such as Yahoo & AOL that provided news and search
  Then came the pure search Google, successful because it webcrawled and cached the internet,
  provide relevant search results by the number of links pointing to a website (?)

2010's : use the Web Browser to discover :  see what your friends and others think
   Maybe another name for this is Web 2.0, where users dominate content creation.
   Blog, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter

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