I remember Web 3.0 was first a thing maybe 15 years ago when talking about the 'Semantic web', i.e. interchangeable meta data standards etc. That was mostly boring data stuff to 'normal people', so never really took off into the mainstream like 'Web 2.0' did when referencing social media/user generated content.

Then several years later I heard about 'Web 3.0' again, but this time most referring more to the 'internet of things', which seemed to get a bit more traction for a short time, usually around mundane household devices like internet connected fridges and toasters before also disappearing as most of those things never really took off with consumers.

Now for whatever reason it's come back again, but this time rebranded as 'web3' probably to sound more contemporary as web 3.0 sounds very mid 2000s now. This time whoever is driving this is trying to make it about crypto/decentralization etc. as if it's a new thing even though I feel that's kinda been a thing for a quite while now.

Web 2.0 was the crowd - all about people contributing and talking together online.

Web3 is all about people buying and selling things.

The bad smell is strong.

Because we never used the minor version and it doesn't have any practical value?

I mean I dislike the giant ponzi scheme but they do have a cool name, I'll give them that.

Why `web` at all? As far as I can tell it has nothing to do with the web. Has anyone made a "dApp" that actually lets you run websites?

Personally I like WW3 :)