To push back on the premise, picking optimal terms independent of context seems like a fool's errand. If we're communicating with non-tech investors, they may not know what web3 is. If we're among ETH devs, you could get more specific than web3.
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On the contrary, I think Web3 is a much more useful, contextful term for non-tech folks than blockchain, but we still have a lot of educating to do. But of course you're right context is important.
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Since we're getting ridiculously deep in the semantics (thanks
@mattdlockyer) one important note on web3...Web2 came to work because it was short hand for "social web" - a web where anyone could create rather than just consume content... (cont)1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
I actually view web 2.0 as a successful term and think web3 has value - but we need to be clearer about what properties its shorthand for. Which brings us back to the problem of the lack of crispness in the word "decentralization"
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Yeah, it is ambiguous (I didn't realize it was a ref to "web 2.0" until a month into using web3 libraries). I'd also be curious if the term "web 2.0" was coined preemptively to describe what we now associate with it, or if it came after the trends were clear.
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Web 2.0 was first used in 1999 and popularize by O'Rielly - Web 2.0 Conference 2004 was the real kickoff http://conferences.oreillynet.com/web2con/ - so it was early.
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What do you associate with Web 2.0, now? Do you think it describes modern web apps in 2018? Tangent: What a lineup of speakers, wow. Imagine getting all of those people in the same room today.
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I think it still has some roots in "social web" - it's just now that, 15 years in, we understand that the social web actually has created concentrated power like nothing before, so it's lost the disruptive sheen. Could argue it just means app built b/n 2003ish and now, as well.
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BTW, part of the reason I think "crypto" is the default - even more than blockchain or web3 - is that it feels more evocative of disruptive power reclamation, whereas web3 is too easy to dismiss as just a descriptor of "the thing after web2"
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Good point. It's a shame the term is overloaded and so misused.
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btw, just stumbled upon this earlier today. very on topic for this thread:https://twitter.com/backus/status/1055646919345598464 …
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