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Discussion on: Development tools: An analogy between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

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Ricardo Sueiras • Edited

For me, Web 3.0 means the semantic web but I have seen more recently folk in the decentralised space co-opt the term. How do you see the two related? Maybe it is Web 4.0?

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Mai Luong

Hi Ricardo. That’s a good question. I think the common pattern here is Web 3.0 is just a general marketing term referring to the next stage of the web. There is no single definition for Web 3.0. The Semantic Web started a while ago and was called Web 3.0. Recently distributed ledger technologies emerge, so the definitions have included decentralized web as well.

I think each of these perspectives describe a similar end state that is the shift in the digital space; they just start from different technology viewpoints.