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What is Web 3.0? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Binette@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For context, I heard the term "Web 3.0" be used for the first time for everything being put on the blockchain. Then, it reminded me of a post on Mastodon saying that the fediverse is Web 3.0. After that I looked it up on the internet, and the definition included A.I. with crypto.

So I'm wondering, what is actually Web 3.0? What does it mean to you? Or maybe is Web 3.0 just another attempt at making investors pay up?

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[–] Bell@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my mind (56yo programmer), web 1.0 was static web pages and server side stuff (e.g. PHP) only. Web 2.0 was AJAX (server fetches via JavaScript) and then the resulting APIs. To me Web 3.0 aught to be a similarly massive change in how information is delivered.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I would probably be 100% incorrect, but from a consumer perspective, web 2.0 is all in social network platforms and apps that replaced the need for individual sites, these are their own internets inside the internet that you don't even want to leave to find something.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With the introduction of AJAX, web pages became apps. It was the advent of SPAs and SASS. Which enabled the things you saw as a consumer.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks.

[–] dylanmorgan 3 points 5 months ago

I think there are different valid perspectives on what the terms mean, and the server side vs AJAX split pretty tightly correlates to the rise of social media as we currently understand it because the technology enables that use of the internet.