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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by butterthebuddha on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:35AM (#22317991)
"The term was invented by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and later popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

From the same article: "Whether Web 2.0 is substantially different from prior Web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who describes the term as jargon. His original vision of the Web was "a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write." On the other hand, the term Semantic Web (sometimes referred to as Web 3.0) was coined by Berners-Lee to refer to a web of content where the meaning can be processed by machines."

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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by DyslexicAtheist on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:41AM (#22318045)
only the wiki entry you quote has this to say about Web 3.0:

On the other hand, the term Semantic Web (sometimes referred to as Web 3.0) was coined by Berners-Lee to refer to a web of content where the meaning can be processed by machines.

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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by oefrha on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:40AM (#22318551)
Dapps advocates decided to squat the “Web 3.0” name at some point without asking any web people AFAIK. Indeed the technology usually isn’t even HTTP/WWW-based, so calling it Web x.y is kind of a head scratcher. An uncharitable take is to piggyback on an actually successful technology (despite not having much semblance) to lend themselves legitimacy.

A sibling comment claims that it’s Web3, not Web 3.0 (as if it’s meaningfully different), but “Web 3.0” has definitely been used a lot by dapp advocates; evidence abound. Maybe they have since decided that “Web 3.0” is a tad too ridiculous and is now rallying under the “Web3” banner instead. I wouldn’t know.

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Re:Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps o... by mikelockz on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:47AM (#22318090)
Web3 (not Web 3.0) is how browsers communicate with the data that is not hosted on a web server, but rather on a decentralized blockchain. This means that these things are resistant to censorship.
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