[627467]

I never understood the need for "web3" because as far as care "dapps" seems to cover anything non-financial/payment in "crypto".

Blockstacks was initially release with "decentralized" storage that allows me to interact with dapps that would use that storage to hold my data. To me that was and still is the pattern of what I consider "web3".

[UncleMeat]

"Web3" conveniently allows proponents to say "hey the web took a while to catch on" and use that as an argument for the inevitable success of these systems. The connection in naming is essential.