Internet and more precisely the WEB is the most used technology of modern world. Since its launch by Sir Tim Berners-Lee about 20 years or so, WEB has gone through quantum changes. Almost every person on the face of earth uses WEB, in short almost every person in this world has two lives, one is the real life and the other one is over the Internet/WEB. Since its launch WEB has changed the life of people in almost all walks of life. Here we are reminding you of 10 most profound WEB technologies that has improved your life and changed the way you live and interact/communicate with other people.

1: Web Browsers

Can you think of Internet without a Web Browsers, infact web browsers are the one who gave so wide spread popularity to Internet and it became so successful that now countries like FINLAND are declaring Internet as the basic right of every individual. The first Web Browser named WorldWideWeb was released in Feb-26 1991. This one was a simple with basic features but now browsers got a lot more to do than simply retrieve information from Internet. The top players in Web Browser market are Mozilla FireFox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Apple Safari. Each of these have millions of extensions and Add-ons to provide alot of features to there users.

2: Search Engines

To get your required stuff and information about what you want, you have to surf the huge ocean of Internet and  extract your desired Web pages .  How can you get to your desired Web Pages if you don’t know them. Here you get help from Search Engines. Search Engines didn’t started from WebCrawler, AltaVista, Lycos or Yahoo. The early known search Engines were Archie, Veronica, and Jughead but Google really got above all of these market players with its launch in 1998. Google provided more Web indexing and organized all the World’s information that was even beyond the scope of Web. In fact Google was the first to transform Web Search into multi million dollar business. Today more and more people use Google to find their required information. Top players in Web Search industry are Google , Yahoo and Microsoft with its new search engine named Bing.

3: Voise Over IP (VoIP):

Voice over Internet Protocol in not a new idea, it was first presented in IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineering) with a system describing VoIP technology in 1970s. VoIP allows users to make free or cheap calls around the globe. It converts the Voice signals into internet packets for transmission using Internet Cloud instead of traditional Telecom Cloud. The top leader in this Web Technology is Skype which allows about 520 million internet users to communicate using VoIP. Besides voice today VoIP allows video chat, file sharing and other features. More and more companies are competing in the Web Technology like Yahoo messenger, Microsoft MSN messenger and Google Voice Chat, which depicts promising future for VoIP technology.

4: Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

RSS is really impressive technology that lets people track their favourite web sites. Through this technology website simply push their latest updates (e.g posts, news ) directly to their users who can easily get them by using a RSS Feed Reader which can be desktop or Web based. Besides users Website owners use this technology to get quick feed back and comments from their visitors.

5: Real Time Streaming

This is the most used and favourite technology. Web sites like Twitter and Facebook allow users to instantly share updates, ideas  and multimedia files with other users. This technology has revolutionized the way we share information and communicate. Now due to huge number of users on these social media sites Search Engines are working to integrate real time information with search results, to provide users best of both technologies.

6: Peer to Peer Network

This is absolutely amazing technology which allows users to share data without a central node, as more and more user use this setup, they share their data and resources like bandwidth and the network automatically expands with demand, means more and more people use P2P network more it becomes faster. Top players in this technology are BitTorent and Pew Torrent. The idea of P2P network arose with the launch of NapSter in 1999, it was primarily to share music files among distributed users. With time P2P network allowed video and other file sharing and today integrate devices like iPod and are developing to provide even more in near future.

7: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)

Ajax is the web technology which allows web developers to utilize processing power at user end. With Ajax users can request web server to get new information without reloading the entire web page. This had enabled web developers to add more and more functionality to web applications with comparatively less processing power. Applications like Google Docs, Google Maps, Word Press use Ajax technology.

8: Software as a Service (SaaS)

SaaS is a resent technology and is more related to cloud computing. SaaS allows users to store data on a remote server and access and in some cases edit it with a user friendly interface provides over the web. You might have hered of SkyDrive by Microsoft which provides 25Gb free storage space for its users. Users got the flexibility to get their data whenever and where ever needed using internet and any computer. The only risk involve is that in case of any failure at server end user might lose some important data which happened to email SaaS by google named Gmail. But companies are working on this technology to make it more efficient and secure to use.

9: E-Commerce

Even the inventor of Web has not thought of this technology but in 1995 with the launch of Amazon and ebay Web has changed the way people buy and sell goods. Even on Christmas and other holy festivals these services are packed with pre-orders for gifts and other related stuffs. According to an estimate people spend about $ 330 million per year doing online shopping and travelling arrangements. With best price search and comparison this technology no doubt is a blessing for at least shopping loving people.

10: Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)

Do you remember the sound of your modem when you connect to Internet, I am talking about Dail-up Internet. Thanks to this new technology that has not only provided with faster internet access but also ease to mobility while using Internet. Wi-Fi is almost every where on bus stops, in offices, in educational institutes even some airlines are trying to provide their passengers access to Internet during flight.

All these Web technologies have really changed our way of life and provided us with alot of comfort. I know there are a number of other technologies that affected our lives in positive sense let us know about them through comments.