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Web 4.x

What is it:

Lets start with what the EU understands about is and why it wants to „not only catch up in digitalisation“ but „take back the lead“ in it:

EU strategy to lead on Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Action plan

Action plan published by a law firm in the scene.

Example Videos

• Here is what the EU is talking about from our most recent project.
• Web 4.x introduction in 2019 in Paris OW2
• The marketing explainer 2020

What was the vision behind this

NEOM - the human accelerator

Hollywood visuals

our Team

Where did it start

Cerulean Circle GmbH

Down the rabbit whole:

1. 2019 public announcement in Paris OW2 European largest and oldest Open Source Community
   • Video of the event
2. 2001 Etoys
   • https://dev.wo-da.de/RAW/videos/UCP/UCP.mp4
     1. 1969 smalltalk

Where did it evolve

(higher numbers are older...)

1. Industry 4.0
   • 2016 Klaus Schwab adopts it at WEF: Wikipedia
   • 2010 Official BMWi whitepaper headed by Deutsche Post CIO Johannes Helbig: Wikipedia
2. Internet of Services
   • 2007 - Project Theseus
   • 2005 - "If we want to build an Internet of Things we have to build and Internet of Services first" Marcel Donges
3. Internet of Things
   • 2003 Royal Mail London Postal Distribution Center
     1. Invention of the Digital Twin concept
   • 1999 Internet of Things - Kevin Ashton
4. The Web
   • Web 4.0
     1. The actual paradigm shifts
   • Web 3.0
     1. Term hijacked by "Satoshi Nakamoto" with the invention of Security 3.0 on blockchain and BitCoin
     2. Semantic Web - Never really took of but see also here
   • Web 2.0 - Paradigm Shift: User generated Content with dynamic Web Apps
   • 1989 Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server
5. The Internet
   • 2007 Kevin Kelly - The next 5000 days of the web
   • 1969-1990 ARPANET Historical Switch on date 29th October between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and SRI International (SRI)

Why 4.0

This is a little longer story worth of its own page: From Kondratiev to CMM Semantic Versioning

The actual paradigm shifts

1. Object orientation vs Functional world view (1969 first time ever, 2019 in the Web)
   • Digital Twins (2001 first time ever)
     1. Self Sovereign Digital Identities (2024 first time ever)