Web1, Web2, and Web3: history, explanation, and definition The first commercial Web1 applications emerged in the early 1990s. At that time, "the Internet" consisted of static web pages. It was a "read-only" Internet, in that users could only consume information. Platforms like Facebook or Netflix didn't exist back then; the stars were websites like Britannica Online or Yahoo. IP, HTTP, URI, and HTML provided the technological infrastructure. In 2000, the dot-com bubble burst, and many In...