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Evolution of the Web: from Web 1.0 to 4.0

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Khaleel Ibrahim, Asaad·2021·Qubahan Academic Journal

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The internet has become a vital component of the twenty-first century as technology has advanced. The number of new technologies emerging in tandem with the qualities supplied by the Internet is rapidly increasing. The World Wide Web (WWW), which is commonly referred to as the world's largest information environment, is a vital virtual environment in which internet users may trade, read, and publish information using a Web browser. Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 technologies have all been seen and are still being observed in this review paper. However, there is no clear definition for Web 4.0, which is a 4th generation web technology, in the literature. Web 4.0 has multiple dimensions, as seen by the first examples that have appeared. Big data, augmented reality, machine-to-machine communication (M2M), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as well as smart agents, will be able to integrate in the future years. Web 4.0 is a web technology revolution that includes a new internet of things (IoT) that interacts with a variety of models. The goal of this study is to clarify the notion of Web 4.0, which is viewed as an intelligent and symbiotic (human-machine interaction) network with massive interfaces and linkages, as well as to contribute to the literature by studying its many dimensions and investigating its links with new generation technologies.

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    The Introduction describes substantial progress in web technologies, and section 2.1 describes more interactive communication and information sharing through Web 2.0. The Introduction also anticipates that Web 4.0 could enable collaboration in political communities, but it does not say that web evolution has already transformed political communication. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Khaleel Ibrahim, A.
Venue
Qubahan Academic Journal
Publisher
Qubahan
Published
2021-06-30
Volume
1
Issue
3
Pages
20-28
ISSN
2709-8206 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3174596828
Cited by
24
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3
FWCI
0.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Qubahan Academic Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced Data and IoT Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Mobile and Web Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web Applications and Data Management
Keywords
Web 4.0, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, internet evolution, big data, augmented reality, machine-to-machine communication, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, Internet of Things, human-machine interaction, web technologies

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