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I fully agree that 3.0 is the marketing term for decentralized cryptobro stuff, but isn't it also a term that tentatively belonged to a more generic idea of a regular web that iterates beyond web 2.0?



No. Web 3.0 is only defined in terms of marketing buzz tied to crypto. It has zero use outside of that.


Not true. The semantic web people were using it to describe their ambitions.


Right, that's what I mean. Of course it won't stop people, people who are evidently even less acquainted with the subject of than me before I asked my question, from giving confidently incorrect responses.

I don't believe that their version of the term web 3.0 really took off the way that the web 2.0 buzzword did, but I vaguely understand the term having a meaning independent of the meaning given to it by crypto enthusiasts.


Oh it definitely had a meaning before the crypto people started using it. When I think of Web3 I think of "never really got clearly defined, those semantic web guys got close" and then being used for crypto.

Wikipedia backs me up too[0].

> 08:27, 24 October 2006‎ Lumos3 talk contribs‎ 18,470 bytes +36‎ Web 3 redirects here so should be shown as a synonym

So at the end of 06 Wikipedia was referring to semantic web already as Web 3. The first release of bitcoin wasn't until 09.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semantic_Web&oldi...




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