The difference is by 2002, Amazon and Google already existed and were a huge improvement on what came before. I don't see anything similarly useful in the "web3

The difference is by 2002, Amazon and Google already existed and were a huge improvement on what came before. I don't see anything similarly useful in the "web3" space yet. The most compelling use case is still transferring value in cases where value is hard to transfer otherwise (remittances, black market goods/services, censorship evasion) - but this was possible 10 years ago.