This is not my primary understanding of where the term "Web 3" came from or refers to (though I'm not really disagreeing with you - the term is sufficiently neb

This is not my primary understanding of where the term "Web 3" came from or refers to (though I'm not really disagreeing with you - the term is sufficiently nebulous that people use it to mean different things in different contexts). I always understood the primary differences in the Web "versions" to be: 1. Web 1.0: dedicated servers on the Internet producing a lot of content/services by your average user who accesses that content with a web browser. 2. Web 2.0: really focused on the rise of user-generated content, e.g. social media, blogging platforms, image sharing sites, etc. But the architecture is still primarily client-server with end users interacting with server-provided apps. 3. Web 3.0: The main differentiator in Web 3.0 is trustless peer-to-peer architecture. That is, it's no longer about end users needing to connect to Google or Facebook-owned servers to receive and share content. Instead, the content lives on a distributed blockchain that no single entity owns. All of the applications that people talk about in "Web 3.0" like smart contracts, NFTs, etc. arise as a consequence of the underlying architecture being this distributed blockchain.