Web 3.0— The Beginning Of Third Generation Internet
Making sense of the next-gen internet.
You probably heard about Web 3.0, but do you know, what does that even mean? If you still don’t know what it means, then don’t worry, you are not alone.
Web 1.0 vs 2.0 vs 3.0
To understand what Web 3.0 is, we first have to understand the previous versions of the Internet.
Web 1.0
The Internet started evolving around the 1980s. And got a good hype in the 90s, because business started using internet on a high level. As it was just the time to calm before the storm, businesses were using it to promote their products instead of Radios and Magazines.
From 1994 to 2004, these ten years belonged to Web 1.0. Web 1.0 was about reading and not writing. It was static instead of dynamic. And with that cons, it gave birth to Web 2.0.
Web 2.0
Now, this is where the era started in 2004. The next major phase of the Internet was all about interactivity and users. With emerging technologies, Web 2.0 got so many benchmarks, and lots of tech companies got comfortable with it. Users created most of the content on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and yeah, obviously who will forget TikTok.
Now the problem is, when most of the platforms are free, how are they even making billions on it. That starts the problem right!
In this world, NOTHING is free!
If you are not paying for a product, then you are a product.
With Web 2.0, users are also providing personal information and data to the companies that controlled these platforms.
By seeing this, users had to think of ways to react against the excesses and market dominance of the world’s largest tech companies. A new way of essential has been developed for individuals to use the Internet without giving up their privacy and valuable data, Web 3! the next step of the Internet.
Web 3.0
Powered by Blockchain technology, Web 3.0 comes with an idea to make the whole internet decentralized. The key innovation of these networks is the creation of platforms that no single entity controls, yet everyone can still trust. That’s because every user and operator of these networks must follow the same set of hard-coded rules, known as consensus protocols.
Centralized vs Decentralized
When we say centralized, this purely indicates there is a concept of Client and Server hidden in it. That means the data are going to store on a single central server, which will be owned by an individual or a company.
On the other side, decentralized indicates, Instead of storing the data on a central server it’ll be stored on individual nodes. Thanks to blockchain, the data is immutable and safe.
And the whole decentralized internet is known as Web 3.0.
How do you use Web 3.0?
With Web 3.0, the network is decentralized, so no one entity controls it. With emerging web 3 technology like Crypto, Ethereum and Blockchain there has been a new term popping up these days, DApps (decentralized applications). Anyone is able to build and connect with different dapps without permission from a central company.
There are many Web 3.0 dapps that are available. Currently, I am exploring these two;
The Future
The web is an unfinished project. The future of the web is about to increase connectivity, privacy, and scalability. For sure, we are moving from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 in 2022. We can say we are already at the entry gate of the Web 3.0 era because Crypto and NFT are getting famous these days(thanks to X Æ A-12’s dad).
Yes, It’ll take some time to give a complete shape to it, but we’ll soon use all the decentralized services on a daily basis.
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