Re:SBF Is Headed to Prison but FTX Will Haunt the Crypto Com...
by rsynnott on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:48AM
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> I have questions too ... like, is this even a thing at all, has it ever been? I must be missing something, I'm just not sure what.
Define "a thing". As in a thing that VCs threw money at? Absolutely. As in a thing that any normal human ever used or would ever want to use? No, but arguably that wasn't the point.
To add to the confusion, there was previously a thing called Web 3.0, or the Semantic Web. This was a big collection of W3C standards aimed around making internet data machine readable. Its main practical legacy is ActivityPub (and arguably RSS depending on how hard you squint at it). This was completely unrelated.
Define "a thing". As in a thing that VCs threw money at? Absolutely. As in a thing that any normal human ever used or would ever want to use? No, but arguably that wasn't the point.
To add to the confusion, there was previously a thing called Web 3.0, or the Semantic Web. This was a big collection of W3C standards aimed around making internet data machine readable. Its main practical legacy is ActivityPub (and arguably RSS depending on how hard you squint at it). This was completely unrelated.