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Not really. The Ethereum whitepaper was 2013, and I'm pretty sure the first Web3 stuff talking about Ethereum(execution)+Swarm(storage)+Whisper(signalling) was
by px43 4y ago
Not really. The Ethereum whitepaper was 2013, and I'm pretty sure the first Web3 stuff talking about Ethereum(execution)+Swarm(storage)+Whisper(signalling) was 2014, and IPFS was launched in 2015. IPFS worked well enough that people lost motivation to work on Swarm, and IPFS pubsub would have been cool for the signalling layer, but it seemed to fall flat on its face. Ethereum went all in on being the execution layer of Web3 and mostly delegated other components to other projects which are competing to fill in the gaps, but all generally play nice with each other.
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/18/building-decentralized-web https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/18/building-decentralized-...
- hosh 4y agoI suppose "long before" is a mischaracterization. According to Protocol Lab's history, this stuff was bandied about in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20210428163146/https://protocol.ai/about/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210428163146/https://protocol.... To be fair, ideas like can emerge all together, whether in parallel or because people were talking to each other about it. Personally for me, I don't think web3 will get anywhere (and I could be wrong). I'm more interested in IPFS (and less so with FileCoin) because the use-case I am interested in is much narrower in scope. It's also interesting to me that "web3" got hijacked from semantic web ... though semantic web stalled out as well.