Web 3

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The web originally required technical skills to publish anything to it. Retrospectively, this stage has been called Web 1. Then came Web 2 (aka the social web, the ‘read + write’ web), enabling anyone anywhere to publish anything.

A vision for the web known as the semantic web (or semweb for short) was and is still referred to as Web 3. Confusingly then, the recent application of novel cryptographic techniques to the challenges of distributed computing has also attracted the moniker.

Ironically for a field obsessed with distributed consensus, there is no consensus on the definition of this Web 3, and so the description in the previous sentence will suffice here.

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lol
Yeah
I think I wrote about this exact same thing. web3 was supposed to be the semantic web, but that never really happened :disappointed_relieved:
Now web3 is the crypto-web. Hopefully it will also be semantic at some point :yum:

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Given that the SemWeb was / is championed in terms of making information universally or at least interoperably meaningful, it is supremely ironic that “web 3” is now ambiguous.

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Yeah. really is.
Though since the to have a common shared data structure it would have to be meaningful, maybe there’s some kind of foresight happening here :roll_eyes:

That would just be Akashic records version 2 though, wouldn’t it…

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