Well Web 3.0 was originally the semantic web[0]. It began to become the decentralized web, or "re-decentralized web" as Tim Berners-Lee used to prefer, after in

Well Web 3.0 was originally the semantic web[0]. It began to become the decentralized web, or "re-decentralized web" as Tim Berners-Lee used to prefer, after interest in the semantic web began to fade. The cryptocurrency interest in the decentralized web then came later. I think most people would agree that the great schism occurred at the Decentralized Web Summit in 2018. That year it was sponsored by a number of cryptocurrency schemes, and most of the established members felt that the cryptocurrency oligarchs and their vassals were trying to infect and subvert the aims of the decentralized web for the private profit of shady individuals and organisations who actually made the centralised web look like the preferable option. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web