Web 1 is the internet of the 1990s, before user-generated content, indexed search, and social media platforms. It lived exclusively in desktop computers. Web 2 is the internet as we know it today, with user-generated content, streaming video and music, and location-based services. It thrives on mobile devices. Web 3 was first coined in a 2006 New York Times article referring to a third-generation internet. This new internet is made up of concepts including the “semantic web,” or a web of data that can be processed by machines, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining. When
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