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WEB 3.0 OR WEB3 IN A LAYMAN TERM AND WHY EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS.

Michael Anderson on February 28, 2022

First and foremost I will like to welcome everyone reading this article to the era of Web 3, the 3rd phase and so far the best phase of the interne...
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Jay Jeckel • • Edited

This site gets dozens of these articles a week and I've been trying not to respond to them because the repetition of responses get as anoying as the repetition of the web3 propoganda, but in this case I can't resist.

Web 1.0 Web 1.0 (1991 to 2004) was when people went on the Internet to read information and look at pictures, such as Wikipedia. You go online by dialling in with a landline telephone, and there was no way of sharing contents apart from email. Blogs, journals, and chat forums were the village halls of the early Internet. The seeds of web empires began to bloom during this era, including Yahoo, Amazon, Apple, Facebook (Meta), Microsoft, Google and making them billionaires . The Web 1.0 was the read-only Internet.

Read that back. Web 1.0 was the "read-only Internet" and what are the examples of this read-only age of the web where "sharing contents" was only possible with email? Wikipedia, blogs, and forums, three examples of things that are the opposite of being read-only.

If that doesn't make it clear enough, I'll state it plainly: there was never a web 1.0 that was read-only, the web has always been interactive; web 2.0 was nothing more than a marketing term that con artists and snake-oil sellers used to confuse non-technical suits about the uptake of AJAX that was going on in the mid-2000s; web3 is therefor nothing more than a lie built on a lie and ultimately means nothing at all.