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OMG, who coined "the term"? "web3" is a name of a project, not a general technical term that people agreed upon. This is a marketing scheme, and mere delusion

by esjeon 5y ago

OMG, who coined "the term"? "web3" is a name of a project, not a general technical term that people agreed upon. This is a marketing scheme, and mere delusion from a cult of people that never clearly and strongly defined. Maybe this was the very beginning of the misery of blockchain - the cult only looked into their own dream, and never looked outside.

keyle 5y ago
Can I just please "coin" the term web5? I'd love to do web4 but I'm pretty sure someone's already done it. web5 = the web is in your brain. Think of it, and <ADVERT> you <ADVERT> have the <NIS ENLARGEMENT ADVERT> answ <MAKE MY LOGO BIGGER CREAM> er! You can skip this advert in 0:49. I will see you at the inter <ADVERT> view! You didn't like this advert? TELL US WHY.
- taylorhughes 5y ago
  The father of web5 has spoken!
  - keyle 5y ago
    pray<ADVERT>emoji
- adventured 5y ago
  Someone already did Web3 a long time before Gavin Wood supposedly coined it (he didn't). People were writing about Web 3, aka Web 3.0, two decades back. It was supposed to be about the semantic Web and various related concepts that would revolutionize information and knowledge systems. The tech industry hype machine is a self-humiliating con machine more often than not. Web3 should be aggressively mocked to the extent the clown parade attempts to use it to hype more shit. It was not uncommon to write about it as of 2009-2011. Even CNN wrote an article about it circa 2009: "Web 2.0 is so over. Welcome to Web 3.0" https://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/technology/hempel_threepointo.fortune/index.htm https://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/technology/hempel_threepoin... (yeah but, uhhhh, if we call it Web3 then it's totally different from calling it Web 3.0 and not so embarrassing mkay)