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Brain Traffic Blog: What is Web 3.0, anyway?

  • Richard · 6 months ago
    I'll like it if people stop calling it "Web 3.0". It's a constant evolution of technologies and ideas. It's not like we have a subversion repository. What happened to "Web 3.0RC1" or even "Web 0.9a"?

    Honestly, I've hated the term "Web x.x" ever since O'Reilly popularized it. It has become a buzzword for many internet developers and designers which they all proudly pin on their website "We are Web 2.0".

    Aside from being an overused buzzword which I can't seem to get away from it does not really describe anything. It's an opinion, and as such does not really define anything. As is highlighted by the section in your post "What is Web 3.0?", all your references are the opinions of the author.

    Not that my opinion matters in the grander scheme of things, but I feel that a term should be changed to something less generic and more descriptive. Something like (note that this is an example not a suggestion cause I suck at these sort of things) "Intelligent Internet" instead of "Web 3.0" or "Social Internet" instead of "Web 2.0".