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No. Web 3.0 is only defined in terms of marketing buzz tied to crypto. It has zero use outside of that.

• pests 3y ago
  Not true. The semantic web people were using it to describe their ambitions.
  • glenstein 3y ago
    Right, that's what I mean. Of course it won't stop people, people who are evidently even less acquainted with the subject of than me before I asked my question, from giving confidently incorrect responses. I don't believe that their version of the term web 3.0 really took off the way that the web 2.0 buzzword did, but I vaguely understand the term having a meaning independent of the meaning given to it by crypto enthusiasts.
    • pests 3y ago
      Oh it definitely had a meaning before the crypto people started using it. When I think of Web3 I think of "never really got clearly defined, those semantic web guys got close" and then being used for crypto. Wikipedia backs me up too[0]. > 08:27, 24 October 2006‎ Lumos3 talk contribs‎ 18,470 bytes +36‎ Web 3 redirects here so should be shown as a synonym So at the end of 06 Wikipedia was referring to semantic web already as Web 3. The first release of bitcoin wasn't until 09. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semantic_Web&oldid=83385828 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semantic_Web&oldi...