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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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Yeah the naming is dumb. But I think it’s key to make the difference between these two phases visible so the later doesn’t erase the former. I think there’s still a lot to be learned from that earlier period. It’s a stronger foundation for true decentralization than blockchain.
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