The document provides an overview of the rise of crowdsourcing and related technological and sociological trends from 1993 to the present. It discusses the emergence of the World Wide Web in 1993 and its opening to the public. Key developments discussed include the rise of e-commerce, search engines, social media, cloud computing, big data, mobile technology, and the concept of collective intelligence. Models of crowdsourcing like cloud labor, crowd creativity, open innovation, distributed knowledge, and crowdfunding are explained.