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What, specifically, are you talking about?

• nl 4y ago
  There was an attempt to make semantic web = web3.0 in around 2009 or so. Eg https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305443181_PROGRESSION_OF_WEB_30SEMANTIC_WEB_FROM_WEB_10_A_SURVEY https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305443181_PROGRESSI... (April 2009) It didn't really go anywhere. Web3 now is sort of a thing because one of the main Ethereum client libraries is called Web3: https://github.com/web3/web3.js https://github.com/web3/web3.js
  • braingenious 4y ago
    So, web3 doesn’t rely on crypto so long as you define the term in a way that’s inconsistent with how it’s basically universally used today?
    • nl 4y ago
      I think you are misinterpretating my comment! I specifically said 'It didn't really go anywhere" and pointed at the Ethereum (aka crypto) Web3 library! I was expanding on @DonHopkin's comment "The original Web3 stuff that came less than a year after the Web2 stuff in the early 2000's". In my view back then it was dumb (Web2.0 was still a new thing) and was just an attempt by the Semantic Web fans to get some hype. It didn't work. (For better or worse I work at a Web3 company so I'm reasonably aware of how it is used within that community today)