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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9265677" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>Sorry if someone else answered you, but I didn't see it. Short version: It's a business buzzword for any new online technology.</p><p></p><p>Longer but still overly summarized version: The phrase "Web 2.0" popped up around the shift from the older style internet where everyone had their own website following the rise of Myspace, Friendster, and other early social media networks and caught on with Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc. It was created to talk about the new algorithmic-driven social media experience from these sites where you were recommended media, news, and other sites based on what your "friends" recommended along with your previous history of viewing. It's basically the internet as most people know it who weren't around in the days of Usenet, Geocities, and so on where everyone had their own personal websites rather than just profiles on social media sites.</p><p></p><p>Enter Web 3.0, which was created as a blanket label for all of the new technology coming up that was thought would revolutionize the internet just as much as the advent of social media. The original promise of Web 3.0 was decentralized everything and online replacing the physical world. Everything would pivot on virtual reality and blockchain technologies - Your money would be replaced by cryptocurrency, ownership of "places" or "things" in the virtual world replaced by NFTs, and living and working in the Metaverse of virtual reality.</p><p></p><p>Well that didn't happen, so now Web 3.0 has pivoted to include the new hotness fad of "AI". So now it's algorithmic generation that will make Web 3.0 happen with many of the people who are either True Believers or didn't cash out before the bubble burst believing that is the missing puzzle piece to make crypto, NFTs, and the Metaverse happen.</p><p></p><p>The primary purpose of "Web 3.0" is to stir up investors. There are a lot of rich old boomers who are still angry that they dismissed the internet in the 90s, smartphones in the 00s, and social media in the 10s as pointless fads that won''t last and that they didn't jump on board with Google's and Facebook's IPOs or buy Apple stock when the iPhone was announced that they're making it all of our problems by investing in every buzzword-laden pitch to fill them with FOMO that they're going to repeat their mistake with whatever comes next. It's even why it's phrased as "Web 3.0" - so you think it's the next stage of evolution for the internet and if you're not jumping in on it, you're going to be left behind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 9265677, member: 6669048"] Sorry if someone else answered you, but I didn't see it. Short version: It's a business buzzword for any new online technology. Longer but still overly summarized version: The phrase "Web 2.0" popped up around the shift from the older style internet where everyone had their own website following the rise of Myspace, Friendster, and other early social media networks and caught on with Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc. It was created to talk about the new algorithmic-driven social media experience from these sites where you were recommended media, news, and other sites based on what your "friends" recommended along with your previous history of viewing. It's basically the internet as most people know it who weren't around in the days of Usenet, Geocities, and so on where everyone had their own personal websites rather than just profiles on social media sites. Enter Web 3.0, which was created as a blanket label for all of the new technology coming up that was thought would revolutionize the internet just as much as the advent of social media. The original promise of Web 3.0 was decentralized everything and online replacing the physical world. Everything would pivot on virtual reality and blockchain technologies - Your money would be replaced by cryptocurrency, ownership of "places" or "things" in the virtual world replaced by NFTs, and living and working in the Metaverse of virtual reality. Well that didn't happen, so now Web 3.0 has pivoted to include the new hotness fad of "AI". So now it's algorithmic generation that will make Web 3.0 happen with many of the people who are either True Believers or didn't cash out before the bubble burst believing that is the missing puzzle piece to make crypto, NFTs, and the Metaverse happen. The primary purpose of "Web 3.0" is to stir up investors. There are a lot of rich old boomers who are still angry that they dismissed the internet in the 90s, smartphones in the 00s, and social media in the 10s as pointless fads that won''t last and that they didn't jump on board with Google's and Facebook's IPOs or buy Apple stock when the iPhone was announced that they're making it all of our problems by investing in every buzzword-laden pitch to fill them with FOMO that they're going to repeat their mistake with whatever comes next. It's even why it's phrased as "Web 3.0" - so you think it's the next stage of evolution for the internet and if you're not jumping in on it, you're going to be left behind. [/QUOTE]
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