Web 4.0: The birth of the Hyperlocal Internet.
Throughout the aging and development stages of the Internet, the concept of what the web represents structurally has been viewed in many interesting ways. Many technologists look at the internet through the metaphor of a child growing into adulthood (because as humans, we always like personify the things we make). One that is continually growing and getting up to speed as it learns the ability to Read, Write, or understand Semantics, or as some might say more a little more playfully: crawl, walk, and run. As of right now, the Web’s development breaks down into 4 distinct stages (plus one conceptual stage), each bringing new features and functions to our fingertips while the Internet learns to sprint.
As of this year, the Internet is either 35 or 28 years old, depending on whether you date its beginnings to ARPANET, which first utilized TCP/IP network protocols (January 1, 1983), or when Tim Berner-Lee first developed and coined the name for this platform we all know and love, the World Wide Web (WWW in 1990). The Internet is basically the same age as the many “Elder Millennials” that are now influencing and shaping culture based on universal connection, entertainment, technology and identity.
WEB 0 — The Internet began in 1989 as a concept proposed by Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist working at CERN (conspiracy theorists start your engines). It started innocently enough as a way to aggregate research information across the entire CERN network without hosting it on every computer. Long story short, Tim was able to get a front-end “web page” visual (a very foreign concept at the time) to take data from the server on the other end, and the internet was born!
After the success of his experiment, Tim immediately began to push for college students, professors, and computer scientists to begin making their own web pages to host their research content, and browsers to sift through them. Thereby strengthening his network and crowd-sourcing his tech development long before the term “crowd-sourcing” even existed (which was coined in 2006, if you were going to google it, because internet).
WEB 1.0 — The Read-Only Web — As of 1999, the Internet had grown to around 3 million read-only websites, where you could view text, but not interact with features like buttons, just like when you used to get a read only .pdf or .txt file. This era was that of the establishment of search engine giants (and later corporate wars), with Yahoo being the most popular initially, but eventually losing the world’s favor to the uberclean design and function of Google.
WEB 2.0 — The Read-Write Web — Just like those old CD-RWs we all used to make mixtapes for our friends collecting dust in the closet (Yes, there was a time before iPods, and I bet some of you don’t even know what an iPod is), the Internet began to allow people to “write” during this adolescent phase, and add their value and data to platforms like Wikipedia. For the first time the mainstream was enabled to create, post and share without any knowledge of HTML, or other web programming languages (because coding is hard). Thus, Wikipedia and Facebook led the way towards our modern form of “cloud collective consciousness”, with group approval and contribution motivating markets, popularity, influence and technology.
WEB 3.0 — The Semantic Web — Internet historians and tech geeks can definitely agree that we are currently in the midst of WEB 3.0, referred to by many as the Semantic Web, and the rise of WEB 4.0. The progression to our current WEB 3.0 world has been motivated by the development of the internet’s ability to combine semantic markup (info tagging) and web services companies’ drive to standardize information and systems. Their main goal being to increase interactivity between devices, the Internet, users and machines. The Internet in WEB 3.0 became three-dimensional, in that information can be reorganized and analytics ascertained to witness (and somewhat unfortunately manipulate) user behavior. The benefit of WEB 3.0 is that data can be used across multiple spaces, speeding up scientific and technological progress across all markets, devices, and platforms globally. WEB 3.0 is indicative of what Social Media and applications will eventually become.
Technologists continually argue over when web 4.0 will begin, but ALFA-ENZO seeks to help Shepard in this new era, in a huge way.
Welcome to Alfa, the birth of the Hyperlocal Internet.
WEB 4.0 — The Internet of Things; Intelligent Internet; The HyperLocal Internet — The Internet (and inevitably society) is steaming headfirst into a world consisting of a decentralized, free-range chicken, a-la-carte, personalized internet / data / content experience space. At the end of the day the Internet is about sharing information and access. Sharing on the Internet here can be viewed as intersect between the need for communication, expressive content, and the practical application of data storage. From day one, the web’s main purpose was to hold information in multiple places and be called up (like you used to do with Becky using landlines — landlines? Man, I’m dating myself here…) instead of storing it locally. The mobile phone is now the center of technological focus, as most people utilize the platform for daily life tools, access to the internet, and communication.
ALFA-ENZO’s operating system infrastructure promotes the growth of technology and software in the dApp space, which over time will replace the massive corporate apps of the world with specific, local, and curated user experiences that promote social cohesion and commerce in community spaces. This is the ALFA movement towards hyperlocality. This focus on people’s everyday interactions is a determination to break down the digital barriers we have built up around us in the first world, and improve the standard of living globally, through local business exposure and data monetization. With decentralized currency, dApps, the Internet of Things (IOT), mesh network infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence and ALFA-ENZO at the WEB 4.0 user’s disposal, a more open society via an localized and fair Internet will rise to inform, inspire and improve the world.
This is The Hyperlocal Internet; This is ALFA.
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