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I got an email this morning from a former Web design student of mine. He was asking for a copy of a document I used to have on my previous design Web site and is long gone. Fortunately, I still have it in my files. And I’ve updated it and posted it here.
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I posted on Saturday about the evolution of my old site, dawnsbrain.com. I thought it would be fun today to compare four sites that been around about as long as the Web itself. The Web Archive begins in 1996. I took a sample of each site roughly every two years. Please forgive any missing images; the archive doesn’t always get every piece.

 

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My original business name was Dawn’s Brain Design, and my Web site for it was dawnsbrain.com. I kept a teaching blog there since 2006, when I started teaching full time. I thought it would be fun to take a look at how dawnsbrain.com evolved since 2000 when I began it.

 

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For years, I have worked with blogging software like WordPress and shopping cart software like X-Cart. For much of that time I have been intimidated by the prospect of developing an online community. They seem to be an order of magnitude more complex than anything I’ve worked with before. That has changed.

I spent the earlier part of this past week at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. I learned many things there, and got some great visual introductions to 3D motion graphics. But the most paradigm-shifting (please forgive me the cliche) experience I had was a 3-hour seminar on Wednesday.
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I’ll be heading to the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, staying through Wednesday. One of the seminars I plan to attend is called, “Emerging Web 3.0 Technologies You Need To Know”.

When I saw that seminar title, I thought sheesh I’m still trying to figure out what Web 2.0 encompasses. It turns out that a lot of people are still doing that. Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web, once said “I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means.”

This is a great article that attempts to define the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. It even offers what Web 4.0 and beyond may look like:

“How Web 3.0 Will Work” on howstuffworks.com

Here’s a quick summary I compiled of the suggested distinctions:

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