DITA The Evolution of the Web

To introduce the concepts of Web 1.0 I found this  website: http://www.marcuscake.com/wp-content/uploads/economic_development_web1_to_web4.gif (Accessed 15-10-2010) In some way the eveolution of the web, both past present and future is encapsulated in the figure:

For the the first assignment for DITA an introduction to digital data and information and the inception of the internet and WWW. Marcus Cake describes the early stages of the internet as it relates to the economic shift in developed countries, moving from primary and secondary sectors (mining, agriculture, manufacturing) to the tertiary sectors of professional services.

"In the 1990s, the internet provided organisations with a means to distribute basic information to their communities of interest and undertake basic transactions. New organisational structures were not possible. The complementary technologies were not fully evolved and global internet usage by the global community approximately 10%."


Although Marcus Cake is perhaps a financial information scientist (I am not sure of the motivation of his site) but this provides excellent insight into some key concepts of the Web 1.0 "channel" which I will build upon in the wider sense of the digital representation of information.Further, the diagram above charting the evolution towards Web 2.0 , Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 will be further blog topics. This serves as a good piece of background to the Webs current and future direction.