- Web 1.0 was really the basics of content and linking, ugly flashing banners, etc. - Web 2.0 was really about web applications, I don't think social media or

- Web 1.0 was really the basics of content and linking, ugly flashing banners, etc. - Web 2.0 was really about web applications, I don't think social media or websites really counts in this as I see it as a revolution in the business sphere. Desktop apps were no longer necessary to do things - you can build web apps, like Salesforce as an example. - Web 3.0 seems like a buzzword so far and people want to delineate that there is a new paradigm but it's really fuzzy on what that actually might be. I think people are a little too focused on blockchain, that might be an implementation detail of Web 3.0 when its less fuzzy. I think there is some emerging things and web 3.0 could be a revolution of sorts in finance and art. By "art" I mean broadly speaking but things that are digital - music, videos, games, digital worlds (aka metaverse). I think more practically so some examples might help the discussion: - If web 3.0 ends up being putting on a VR headset and as your avatar, "walking" into a digital shopping mall to purchase a stick of deodorant using some crypto then I say its a giant failure. I think VR will be pretty limited, just look at 3D TV's that were supposed to take off - the majority of people don't like wearing goggles/3D glasses for entertainment. - If web 3.0 allows artists to fund their work (via blockchain, contracts, NFT) to have limited releases that can be bought/sold/traded without huge fees then it could eliminate a lot of "middlemen" that just siphon a large percentage of royalties away from artists. I mention NFT but really I think it is the smart contracts part of Eth - from what I read these things are possible but really costly today. NFT and "token" could end up being marketing terms and the technical details about if something really is a "non-fungible token" could be fuzzy. - In the finance realm there may be possibilities beyond crypto currencies. Things like a way to build something like kickstarter/go fund me but for companies to secure funding (via eth smart contracts or some other mechanism) without an IPO that requires underwriting, banks, expensive lawyers, etc. Think of someone starting a knitting wholesale business, selling supplies and knitting plans but an early "investor" into the blockchain/NFT/thing is also a stakeholder in the business and maybe receive some dividend based on sales. I'm not an expert on this but from what I read this might be a possibility. In general I think web 3 is more about decentralization of funding models and decentralized ways for indie's to produce things.