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by giantrobot 1631 days ago
> I don't even get the idea of these web versions. They just seem like buzzwords to me.

They are buzzwords. There was no Web 1.0. The "Web 2.0" was coined as an umbrella term for AJAX-using sites that allowed a lot more interactivity. It's not like some product got a version bump. It became vogue to refer to older style static or HTTP form POST sites as "Web 1.0".

Now the cryptobros are trying really hard to push "web3" as a buzzword for their dystopian blockchain based nightmares. Tim Berners-Lee had already started pushing "Web 3.0" to describe the semantic web technologies he's very excited about.