What is Web 5.0?

GS Paper 3:

Syllabus: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.

Context:

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced his vision for a new decentralized web platform that is being called Web 5.0.

• The aim is to return “ownership of data and identity to individuals”.

What do the terms Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 mean?

Web 1.0 is the “read-only Web,” Web 2.0 is the “participative social Web,” and Web 3.0 is the “read, write, execute Web.”

• Web 1.0. Web 1.0 was all about reading, and getting information.
• Web 2.0 was all about reading, writing, and creating. So, users joined social platforms, and these platforms got big because of this created content.
• Web 3.0 is all about reading, writing and owning. So, builders and creators can now own a piece of their own community, through NFTs, tokens etc.

What is Web 5.0?

Being developed by Dorsey’s Bitcoin business unit, The Block Head (TBH).

• Simply put, Web 5.0 is Web 2.0 plus Web 3.0 that will allow users to ‘own their identity’ on the Internet and ‘control their data’.
• Both Web 3.0 and Web 5.0 envision an Internet without threat of censorship – from governments or big tech, and without fear of significant outages.

InstaLinks:

Prelims Link:

1. What is Web 5.0?
2. Differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.
3. What is the internet of things?

Mains Link:

What is web 5.0? Discuss its significance.

Q. 3) Consider the following statements:

1. Web 1.0 is the read-only Web.
2. Web 2.0 is the participative social Web.
3. Web 3.0 is the read, write, execute Web.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

1. 1 only.
2. 2 only.
3. Both.
4. None.

Sources: Indian Express.