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Re:Web3 is just a fresh serving of the same old crypto nonsense by isitmadeofglass on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:46AM (#32096717)
Web 3.0 was Also a name given to something that had already happened. It was the semantic web, with technologies like rdf, graph databases and such.

I’m sure the origin of “web3” as something related to crypto scams was entirely SEO. You could pitch your new scam-coin as “the new web tech” everyone is talking about and then link to a tach about Web 3.0 by Tim Berneses-Lee as if they had any anything at all to do with each other. Unfortunately the semantic web never truly matured to the point of widespread adoption, but crypto scams did.

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Re:Web3 is just a fresh serving of the same old crypto nonsense by jraph on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:49AM (#32096760)
Yes, that makes the whole Web3 story a lot more infuriating. It's like they don't know at all what they are doing. Not that they care anyway.

At least it's good they didn't manage to follow the "Web X.0" scheme properly.

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