When did they start calling crypto-informed stuff Web3?
Where did the term come from? For a while 10y ago, “Web 3.0” was being used for SemWeb.
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Shouldn’t the next thing be Web 4?
Web 2.0 was approximately 2004-2007: RSS, REST, jquery + Rails, Unix, “small tools loosely joined”, blogging.
Web 3.0 is what we’re in now: smart phones, frontend frameworks, surveillance ad tech, gig economy, social media monoliths.
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It's like being "on the right side of history". Everyone wants to claim the mantle of being inevitably next. When they fail to do so, we scrub them like a bad PR on github and on to the next next.
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It was Gavin Wood () while he was building Ethereum, here is the original blog post where he coined the term: gavwood.com/dappsweb3.html
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its a riff off of web2. the idea is that rather than having centralized bodies like goog and facebook walling off large portions of the web, everything is decentralized on a blockchainy thing
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I think Web3.0 was an early ETH meme? I'm not 100% sure on the history but I want to say around 2014-2016. ETH's Javascript interface library is called web3.js and was started pretty early I think.
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First noticed it about a year or two ago when people were trying to rebrand It as a “new decentralized internet”
I feel like we’re stuck in a constant cycle with Web3 is constantly tossed around with ironically no consensus anymore, despite all these new consensus algorithms
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Web 3 is the crypto equivalent of the cloud. Just a blanket marketing term for other people's computer
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