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

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)