> Is there any significance that he chose "Internet 3.0" rather than "Web 3.0". I think so, the closing point of the article is that we are due for a return to

> Is there any significance that he chose "Internet 3.0" rather than "Web 3.0". I think so, the closing point of the article is that we are due for a return to decentralization, even if that is spurred on in the short-term by "competing centralized solutions." The primitives required to run distributed/federated services that can compete with the big web giants probably aren't there just yet, but they are starting to emerge. With cloud hosting providers, K8s is a big step forward, because you can deploy an open-source system end-to-end an arbitrary cloud k8s platform. Part of the pain of switching to more open alternatives in the past has been managing operational deployments which this begins to address. Blockchain technologies, for all their misuse and hype have brought us some interesting innovations such as the InterPlanetary File System (which probably isn't going anywhere but is a start). None of this is better than the current crop of closed system, compare Diaspora to Facebook for example, but we have the start. But you can only have the "Web" applications he envisions if you have the "distributed internet substrate."