Re:Web 3 Doesn't Exist
by dheera on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:58PM
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What especially doesn't exist is Web "3.0". What's next, 3.1 LTS? 3.2.4 beta2? I wish people would stop abusing semantic versioning and tacking on a ".0" just because it looks funky cool to businessy types.
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Re:Web 3 Doesn't Exist
by chrisco255 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:52AM
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There is no central web repo following semantic versioning. It's not a coding term. It's a useful abstraction for distinguishing the web as it exists today vs. the web we're trying to build.
It's not even a web that's being built.
Even Ethereum relies on TCP and UDP ports which are Web 1 as far as I care.
Invent some new "XYP" or whatever that isn't TCP or UDP and you can call it Web 2, maybe.
Re:Web 3 Doesn't Exist
by chrisco255 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:36AM
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You don't have to overthink it. Web 2.0 wasn't a real thing either. It was generally marked by the expansion of real-time interactive applications on the web that didn't need to refresh for state updates.
It's just an abstraction, not a technical term. Think of it as the third generation of web applications.
So people should stop putting ".0" at the end of it, at least.
If ".1" doesn't make sense, ".0" doesn't either.
It's like if I said Rush Hour 2.0. It makes no sense.
Re:Web 3 Doesn't Exist
by justinator on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:28AM
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I'm old enough to remember Web 2.0 just meant AJAX/XMLHTTPRequest.
I had XMLHTTPRequest functionality before they even released it by exploiting a MSIE bug.
I didn't tell them about it, since I could also read files on users' hard drives, and I didn't want them to remove the feature (bug), but it did enable the future of the web on my tiny little websites before people even started talking about XMLHTTPRequest.