Yes, you should stop using it. Here's Wikipedia's definition of the web:
> The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
The only one of the three you referenced that has anything like that is IPFS, and it's missing large chunks of the web experience we know. Sorry, but a crypto wallet and a data structure simply have nothing to do with the web in any sense that word has ever known.
People love the web. It has profoundly affected nearly everyone on Earth. The last time someone invented something like it was in 1440 in Germany. If you want to redefine it as something completely different, people will assume you're doing it in bad faith to co-opt goodwill for your product. If it's for your crypto wallet, they will be right.
Would it be better if we (the shill council for naming things) just renamed it to ‘net’? You seem to imply that ‘web’ is taken by our current stack
Would the fact that ‘net’ is aiming to make content-addressing a first hand citizen give any weight into being some sort of web? (this seems to be what the paragraph you quoted seems to be mostly concerned with)
Would being able to authenticate to websites with your crypto wallet in a frictionless way give any weight into being some sort of web?
Would a data structure that allows us to content-address files and ensure content resilience give any weight into being some sort of web?
I guess the answer to all my three questions is no because these are not covered in the narrow definition of the web that you provided.
I’m not sure what people loving the web has anything to do with the fact that ‘web3’ seems to be the slug for this new stack shuffle. Do people love web1? web2? This is a non issue. People love being connected as simple as possible, they don’t love the web for using HTTP instead of IPFS…
It seems you have understood. The web is a specific thing, in the same way a printing press is a specific thing. The folks who named the web didn’t call it “electronic printing press” in the same way they named email, because it is a unique and separate idea. The people who named Web 2.0 recognised it was not all that different from before, just a few less page reloads. All your suggestions are unique and separate ideas from the web, and that is great. It’s not that difficult to understand. Give them a different name.
> The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
The only one of the three you referenced that has anything like that is IPFS, and it's missing large chunks of the web experience we know. Sorry, but a crypto wallet and a data structure simply have nothing to do with the web in any sense that word has ever known.
People love the web. It has profoundly affected nearly everyone on Earth. The last time someone invented something like it was in 1440 in Germany. If you want to redefine it as something completely different, people will assume you're doing it in bad faith to co-opt goodwill for your product. If it's for your crypto wallet, they will be right.