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Re:Notes on Web3 by wpietri on Thursday November 18, 2021 @05:41PM (#29271540)
I'll note that the "Semantic Web" was the first contender for being "Web 3": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

So as far as I'm concerned the name is perfect, in that it stands for hype and hazy thinkfluencing that is trying to puff itself up into looking like foundational change.

Re:Notes on Web3 by IncRnd on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:14PM (#29271830)
I'm going to record that in the blockchain to remind posterity that puffery is not the antithesis of what has already been released.
Re:Notes on Web3 by outside1234 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:52PM (#29272131)
Let us know when it is done processing 15 hours and one rainforest from now.
Re:Notes on Web3 by IncRnd on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:57AM (#29278469)
I seem to have run out of disk space during the initial configuration of downloading the blockchain. Oh well.