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Web 2.0 and Beyond-Participation Culture on the Web

Web 2.0 and Beyond-Participation Culture on the Web

August-Wilhelm Scheer
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781605660141|ISBN10: 1605660140|EISBN13: 9781605660158
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch208
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Scheer, August-Wilhelm. "Web 2.0 and Beyond-Participation Culture on the Web." Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition, edited by Margherita Pagani, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 1537-1544. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch208

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Scheer, A. (2009). Web 2.0 and Beyond-Participation Culture on the Web. In M. Pagani (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition (pp. 1537-1544). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch208

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Scheer, August-Wilhelm. "Web 2.0 and Beyond-Participation Culture on the Web." In Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition, edited by Margherita Pagani, 1537-1544. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch208

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Abstract

The emergence of what we call today the World Wide Web, the WWW, or simply the Web, dates back to 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system to manage information overload at CERN, Switzerland (Berners-Lee, 1989). This article outlines how his approaches evolved into the Web that drives today’s information society and explores its full potentials still ahead. The formerly known wide-area hypertext information retrieval initiative quickly gained momentum due to the fast adoption of graphical browser programs and standardization activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In the beginning, based only on the standards of HTML, HTTP, and URL, the sites provided by the Web were static, meaning the information stayed unchanged until the original publisher decided for an update. For a long time, the WWW, today referred to as Web 1.0, was understood as a technical mean to publish information to a vast audience across time and space. Data was kept locally and Web sites were only occasionally updated by uploading files from the client to the Web server. Application software was limited to local desktops and operated only on local data. With the advent of dynamic concepts on server-side (script languages like hypertext preprocessor (PHP) or Perl and Web applications with JSP or ASP) and client-side (e.g., JavaScript), the WWW became more dynamic. Server-side content management systems (CMS) allowed editing Web sites via the browser during run-time. These systems interact with multiple users through PHP-interfaces that push information into server-side databases (e.g., mySQL) which again feed Web sites with content. Thus, the Web became accessible and editable not only for programmers and “techies” but also for the common user. Yet, technological limitations such as slow Internet connections, consumer-unfriendly Internet rates, and poor multimedia support still inhibited a mass-usage of the Web. It needed broad-band Internet access, flat rates, and digitalized media processing to catch on.

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