What is Web3 and how does it differ to Web2?
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Practically the current use of WEB 3.0 is a mostly marketing term used any time blockchain interacts with a website/web app.
What it Aims to be on the other hand…
Well lets talk about web 2.0 first…
Web 2.0 came about with advances in javascript, and server side languages to allow for significantly better interactivity on websites. However as the technology stacks get more and more complex our activities on the internet tend to get **Centralized** with a handful of tech companies hosting and making a lot of content we consume on the web.
Ok now lets talk about torrents… you know how you totally don’t download the latest season of Picard from 1200 different peers, rather than some illegal server in Russia? This is decentralization.
Well, Web 3.0 (at least according to the hype) aims to take web 2.0 and decentralize it using technology built on the same ideas that torrents are built on. There are several benefits to this around socializing power dynamics that I am not going to get into,
The problem though, is that at least right now… what web 3.0 is, is a LOT closer to an empty marketing term for blockchain bros to spout nonsense, than what it “wants to be”…
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