The web became popular because it solved a myriad of problems that people cared about, from text and voice communication to meeting new people.
If you cannot come up with any real world use or purpose for a new hyped tech then I'm not sure if there is any rational basis for that hype.
And searching for problems that match a solution is not how progress happens.
You tried to compare web3 to the web in the 90s, but you unwittingly make web3 sound like the semantic web in the 90s up to now.
It takes vision to predict the future. The people who have it are too busy making things to be making propaganda on Hackernews.
The web became popular because it solved a myriad of problems that people cared about, from text and voice communication to meeting new people.
If you cannot come up with any real world use or purpose for a new hyped tech then I'm not sure if there is any rational basis for that hype.
And searching for problems that match a solution is not how progress happens.
You tried to compare web3 to the web in the 90s, but you unwittingly make web3 sound like the semantic web in the 90s up to now.