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"Web3" was hijacked by cryptocurrency promoters as the marketing term for various get-rich-quick token schemes. (Generally what made them "web3" was simply that
by pavlov 2y ago
"Web3" was hijacked by cryptocurrency promoters as the marketing term for various get-rich-quick token schemes. (Generally what made them "web3" was simply that some venture capitalist had bought a bunch of the tokens early and would get to dump them on Coinbase.)
If there's going to be a web 1.0 revival, maybe it needs to jump straight to version 5 to leave enough of a gap from the taint of blockchain...
- rchaud 2y agoIt's a good thing that the average person doesn't think of the web in terms of historical eras with arbitrary date cutoffs. Web3 was never part of the Internet in the public consciousness. Nothing that requires logging in with a crypto wallet ever was.
- skrebbel 2y agoI propose “Web 95”
- saalweachter 2y agoWeb X. Wait, shit--
- dylan604 2y agoWeb++ would get my nod
- saalweachter 2y agoWeb#, since it's going to be full of octothorpes anyway.
- darknavi 2y agoI'm partial to Web ME my self.
- vincnetas 2y agotangential. when i was learning to program BASIC, one of advices that i got is to number your lines with 10 increment. 10, 20, 30 etc, so later you don't need to rewrite a lot when you need to insert some line. Yes you had to number your lines. I didn't question why though.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoIIRC, most of the promise of web3 was a "semantic web" or a web with a bunch of APIs talking to each other. The hijack was convincing people that some form of payment needed to be built into each API call some way, with some rent seeking/speculation on what the payment was denominated in.