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web3 has existed since 2015, see here: https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/releases?page=14 https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/releases?page=14 How does it

• remram 5y ago
  The fact that somebody published a package named "web3" doesn't mean that "web3", the movement/revolution/direction, exists. I can create a package right now, call it "web4", and return an empty web page. Inferring the future of the web from it would be foolish. The web is used daily by billions of people who use the word to mean something specific, and a few cryptocurrency enthusiasts don't get to decide what it should now be.
  • almostkorean 5y ago
    This feels kinda pointless, but I wasn't trying to say that the package "web3" existing means the concept of "web3" exists. It would have been better for me to post npm download trends, see here: https://www.npmtrends.com/web3-vs-ethers https://www.npmtrends.com/web3-vs-ethers These are both libraries for frontend code to interact with smart contracts. All I'm trying to say is that they do exist and developers have been using them for years.
    • remram 5y ago
      This shows that people in cryptocurrency hope for a future where they take over the web, not that the web see a future in cryptocurrency. Calling it cryptocurrency2.0 would make a lot more sense than web3.