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What the heck is web3? ... according to Twitter.

And will you care?

dan hawkins
Nov 7, 2021
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web1 —> web2 —> web3.

Maybe you’ve seen these meme-like posts on Twitter a thousand times already. Maybe you’ve never heard of web3. Or web2 for that matter. Or heck maybe you’re still on web1.

We talked about all these kinds of webs in our first Noodler post. And I tried to make the case that web1 has actually existed for about 150 years, with the dawn of the telegram - where for the first time you could send bytes of information at the speed of light around the globe. A nascent read-write global communication infrastructure. Regardless of its origins, this web has shifted in the last 20 years.

So what is web3? And should you care? As you’ll see below, everyone has a different take on what web3 is.

To me, web3 means a transition of power (through ownership of content, data, assets, etc.) to creators and communities (or simply, the individual). Perhaps it’s an idealistic pipe dream that’ll struggle to break free from the greedy meathooks of the web2 Zucks. But IMO, it’s inevitable that web3 will come. Or perhaps it’s already here.

This is just how I see web3. Everyone will view it differently. If you go back to the early days of the internet, in the mid 20th century, it was imagined more as an ethos for decentralized, bottom-up communication. And somewhere along the way, this medium (and message) got lost.

Anywho. I scrapped twitter* to find more of these web1, web2, web3 definitions.

*I actually started with an old script that I wrote for TrumpTweets years ago. And I was today years old that I realized you can now just search Twitter. fml.

Here are some in no particular order.

Twitter avatar for @cosmofugalMaya Benowitz 🌱 @cosmofugal
Web1 connected knowledge. Web2 connected people. Web3 will connect everyone and everything.

February 27th 2021

Twitter avatar for @emilianobonassiΞmiliano @emilianobonassi
@fubuloubu @fubuloubu Web3 is the real and original Web Web1 and web2 were just release candidates

April 5th 2021

2 Retweets5 Likes

Twitter avatar for @d4bbaDanial @d4bba
web3 is to web2 what the third dimension is to the first two. web1 connected information. web2 connected people. web3 connects value. we can finally create the solid shape of the internet: informed people, exchanging value. human society, digitized. welcome to the future.
Image

November 4th 2021

4 Retweets28 Likes

Twitter avatar for @JYQ_ETHJYQ @JYQ_ETH
Web1: users are consumers; Web2: users are contributors; Web3: users are owners.

November 5th 2021

1 Like

Twitter avatar for @kevinyienKevin Yien @kevinyien
@gaby_goldberg web1: static web2: dynamic web3: trusted each contains the benefits of its predecessor

August 6th 2021

2 Likes

Twitter avatar for @investree_czTom Zdrazil (👨‍🌾,🌳) @investree_cz
1/ "Web3 will set you free." @haydenzadams Most people don't see that potential yet!🤠 #Web1 - Read only #Web2 - Read and write under centralized ownership #Web3 - Read and write and own
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November 6th 2021

3 Retweets24 Likes

Twitter avatar for @nofiatonlyethnofiatonly.eth 🦇🔊 @nofiatonlyeth
Web1: websites Web2: social mobile apps Web3: tokens

November 3rd 2021

1 Like

Twitter avatar for @lyricalpolymathbeltran @lyricalpolymath
👏this was my pitch for @nesta_uk Web1 connected our information (& accelerated knowledge creation) Web2 connected us as people & our interests (& created digital social groups) Web3 will connect us into global communities to manage our shared values, both cultural & economic

Luis Cuende | Citizen #123 🔮 @licuende

DAOs are the next big thing after social media. Web1 allowed everyone to share ideas. Web2 allowed communities to form and discuss those ideas. Web3 will enable those communities to leverage financial capital and go from discussions to tangible action. https://t.co/XoFZDP3R8G

June 12th 2020

4 Likes

Twitter avatar for @sujith_godsujith.eth @sujith_god
Web1: Google won Web2: Facebook won Web3: Everyone will win

November 4th 2021

1 Like

Twitter avatar for @JYQ_ETHJYQ @JYQ_ETH
Web1: users are consumers; Web2: users are contributors; Web3: users are owners.

November 5th 2021

1 Like

Twitter avatar for @meta_polCactus Chu @meta_pol
@0xtuba I've always thought of it this way: Web1 = disorder Web2 = centralized order Web3 = decentralized order Web3 is any coordinated system for productivity whose control is distributed across many people

September 2nd 2021

1 Retweet32 Likes

Twitter avatar for @extrafrankieFrankie Hildebrand @extrafrankie
#9.) Web1: Companies create content. Companies earn money. Web2: People create content. Companies earn money. Web3: People create content. People earn money. h/t @kissingsky

November 3rd 2021

Twitter avatar for @gtmcknight🤩 Taylor McKnight @ #NFTNYC2021 @gtmcknight
web1: you web2: me web3: we vibes by @jarroddicker // art by @ilyakazakov
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September 9th 2021

5 Retweets56 Likes

Twitter avatar for @thedarkmatterrrthis user no longer exists @thedarkmatterrr
@imBagsy Web1 + Web2 = Web3

October 24th 2021

1 Like

Twitter avatar for @timhartwig𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗦𝗢𝗡 🦋 @timhartwig
„What Is Web 3.0 & Why It Matters“ - good 7 minutes read about the stages of the web. Via @cliveldunn #Web1 #Web2 #Web3
What Is Web 3.0 & Why It MattersWhat technology benefits more than 3 Billion people for 80% of their waking hours every single day? Web 2.0. Web 2.0, coined as such by O’Reilly and others between 1999 and 2004, moved the world on…medium.com

October 16th 2021

2 Likes

Twitter avatar for @aaronagaiPeople, Saint Aaron Nagai @aaronagai
Web1: Amazon, Ebay, Google Web2: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat Web3: Ethereum 🤔 $ETH 💎

May 8th 2021

2 Likes

Twitter avatar for @jeet25_mJeet Mehta @jeet25_m
8/ web3 web1 gave us information. web2 gave us personalization. But at the cost of passing through a middle man. Facebook, Uber, Twitter control our data, and make the rules. web3 is decentralized, and rewards direct ownership. No middlemen, no gatekeeping.

October 29th 2021

7 Retweets65 Likes

Twitter avatar for @licuendeLuis Cuende | Citizen #123 🔮 @licuende
DAOs are the next big thing after social media. Web1 allowed everyone to share ideas. Web2 allowed communities to form and discuss those ideas. Web3 will enable those communities to leverage financial capital and go from discussions to tangible action.
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June 11th 2020

78 Retweets291 Likes

Twitter avatar for @HermeticMandoBlock Tokenizer🌐🛡️⚔️ @HermeticMando
Web1.0 was #Static Web2.0 is #Dynamic #Web3.0 is #Semantic From read only to read & write to read, write and execute with trillions of users capacity. #Distribute2020 #Brave #filecoin #Status #EssentialOne #Ethlance #Experty #Web
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May 9th 2020

And some meme-y ones:

Twitter avatar for @profcarrollDavid Carroll @profcarroll
web1: click here to read my web log web2: troll me on an ad supported platform and subscribe for premium access web3: click here for my library of expensive hashes of urls of jpegs

November 6th 2021

3 Retweets24 Likes

Twitter avatar for @stevesimitzisSteve Simitzis Ⓥ @stevesimitzis
web1: there is no product web2: you are the product web3: fuck you pay me

October 30th 2021

5 Likes

Twitter avatar for @valkenburghPeter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh
web1 = libertarians without a way to pay each other web2 = normies milked for ad revenue web3 = anarchocommunists securitizing jpeg files

September 27th 2021

25 Retweets184 Likes

If you’ve come across some good ones, plz add in the comments.

Here’s some other reads on the history of web1-3:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3/

https://eshita.mirror.xyz/H5bNIXATsWUv_QbbEz6lckYcgAa2rhXEPDRkecOlCOI

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-web-3-0

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