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Web 2 was the idea of user generated content and commenting etc - digg/reddit, twitter, youtube etc have no content of their own (c.f. a news website or whateve

Web 2 was the idea of user generated content and commenting etc - digg/reddit, twitter, youtube etc have no content of their own (c.f. a news website or whatever) but everything there came from the users. Now it seems obvious and not worthy of a label, but at least at the time I guess it kinda captured the imagination and people imagined new/different ways to do things (I think it also coincided with a lot better tooling and tech around javascript). Perhaps web3 will do the same, but so far it just feels like "it's the web as you know it, but now you need to also buy some bitcoin to use it"

JohnFen 5y ago
> Web 2 was the idea of user generated content and commenting etc I keep hearing that, but that's been the thrust of the web from well before the term "web 2" ever left anyone's lips.
hbbio 5y ago
Quite a good summary! However, web3 has nothing to do with Bitcoin which does not provide smart contracts or wallets connected with web apps. Most decentralised apps are built with the Ethereum code (either using the original chain or one of the many forks).
agumonkey 5y ago
To me web3 is financializing internet activities all the way down. Web3 was data. The money/asset/whatever was still going through classical channels.