As a business major who has no tech background whatsoever, I find it hard to understand the basic concept between Web 1, 2, and 3, especially from 2 to 3. Most websites that explain these differences dive into the technical/technological aspects with all these fancy words.
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As a business major you should understand that a lot of the times the jargons used don’t come from the tech side but from the business and marketing side. A whole lot of words used to capture attention first and then define what you think much later
Web 1: The internet is a bunch of static webpages that a user can look up and read.
Web 2: The internet is as it is now, a bunch of dynamic webpages and platforms that you as a user can upload your own content too (think Facebook, Youtube, etc)
Web 3: To put bluntly is largely just a buzzword to make Crypto and NFT schemes sound important and revolutionary. In concept it is that instead of the current platform based systems we have now where ultimate control, ownership, monetization, etc of the uploaded content is held by the platform owners, instead the users will ‘own’ their uploaded content through the use of Crypto via some hand wavy mechanism and the platforms you uploaded too will be distributed in nature instead of centralized into a few big companies like the current platforms.
I thought [this](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/web-1-0-web-2-0-and-web-3-0-with-their-difference/) was a great explanation, the differences basically focus on the form the info is stored, how and from where it is accessible and the nature of user participation.
1.)You own the site and make the content
2.)You own the site and other people make the content
3.)You own the service, and other people own the content and serve the content.
Web 1: read
Web 2: produce
Web 3: own/control
You could add “content” to the end of all of those for conceptual tangibility at the expense of accuracy.
Web 1: The web. You go to an address and there’s a web page. If the website is especially smart, it might be a different web page depending on who you are.
Web 2: The web but now clicking on things doesn’t have to load a whole new web page. And stuff on the page can change without any clicking at all.
Web 3: The web but now you can click a button to pay bitcoins. It’s marketing nonsense by companies that want you to pay them bitcoins.
A good explanation about how “web 3” is overhyped (by an actual computer scientist) : https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud
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