No, you were right in the first paragraph, web3 is a meaningless marketing term. There was never a web 2.0, that was also a meaningless marketing term and was only used by marketers selling snake oil and devs making fun of marketers selling snake oil.
Web1 was mostly Decentralized and was a model that mostly benefited the developers that contributed to it and on top of that, Web1 was referred to as the read-only web because people mostly consumed information and were not able to interact with the static webpages that existed at the time.
Chat rooms and forums have existed since the very beginning of the internet, so there was never any such thing as the "read-only" web. And I'm not sure what is meant by this new "web 1.0 was decentralized" talking point; sites were centrally hosted on servers and governed by centralized authorities, just as they are today.
The Metaverse is a concept about a virtual 3D world that is free and will be built around Web3 concepts.
It's been a few years since I read Snow Crash, but I distinctly remember that nothing about web3 was ever mentioned in the book.
If people want to preach for blockchain, NFTs, DAOs, dapps, or whatever else, fine, but stop spreading these incorrect and misleading talking points. They are at best revisionist history and more often blatant misinformation.
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No, you were right in the first paragraph, web3 is a meaningless marketing term. There was never a web 2.0, that was also a meaningless marketing term and was only used by marketers selling snake oil and devs making fun of marketers selling snake oil.
Chat rooms and forums have existed since the very beginning of the internet, so there was never any such thing as the "read-only" web. And I'm not sure what is meant by this new "web 1.0 was decentralized" talking point; sites were centrally hosted on servers and governed by centralized authorities, just as they are today.
It's been a few years since I read Snow Crash, but I distinctly remember that nothing about web3 was ever mentioned in the book.
If people want to preach for blockchain, NFTs, DAOs, dapps, or whatever else, fine, but stop spreading these incorrect and misleading talking points. They are at best revisionist history and more often blatant misinformation.